Excerpt — Fitness Running-3rd Edition

This book outlines just eight types of workout. However, within each type, the sessions are extremely flexible so you can vary the length and pace to fit your ability and goal.

If you go to a gym, you can choose from many types of strength-promoting equipment, including free weights and almost any type of machine using any type of movement you can imagine.

Marathons are hard work. They don’t begin at the starting line but in the training that begins many months earlier. They take hours to run, and they end not at the finish line, but with recovery that lasts for weeks.