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Welcome to the FORDY RUNS Podcast & Livestream – your go-to destination for running, inspiration, and personal growth. Hosted by FORDY RUNS (Chris Ford), a running coach, YouTuber, and motivational influencer, this podcast delivers expert insights, real talk, and powerful conversations to help you become a stronger, smarter runner. From Marathon and Half Marathon training to our Becoming a Better Runner episodes packed with coaching tips and performance hacks, we cover it all. You’ll also hear inspiring stories from everyday runners and experience our live shows where anything can happen. ...

Hansons Marathon Method tosses out mega-long runs and high-mileage weekends—two old-fashioned running traditions that often injure and discourage runners. Runners using the Hansons method will gradually build up to the moderate-high mileage required for marathon success, spreading those miles more sensibly throughout the week. Running easy days mixed with precisely paced speed, strength, and tempo workouts, runners will steel their bodies and minds to run the hardest final miles of the marathon—and finish strong.

Sports Nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald has spent nearly twenty years studying the diets of top professional endurance athletes, who are among the fittest and healthiest people in the world. As a result, he has identified five core habits that are essential to maximizing workout benefits. The Endurance Diet shares key strategies for optimal health and performance: eat everything, eat quality, eat carbohydrate, eat enough, and eat individually. Whether you want to lose weight, win a race, or look a little more like an elite athlete, this plan is for you.

Read by the author, Paul Sinton-Hewitt, and his co-author, Matt Whyman. Including an audio-exclusive Q&A between Paul and Matt. This is the story of a simple idea that turned into a global movement. This is the story of parkrun, told for the very first time from the man who started it all...

Quit the Chocolate Habit includes two powerful hypnotherapy tracks by Glenn Harrold. The first is a full 43-minute version, which we recommend you use initially for at least 21 days to help you absorb and compound all hypnosis suggestions and affirmations. The second 16-minute hypnotherapy track can be used as a booster track and listened to at any time you choose.

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements, buying fancy kit and racking up extreme challenges, he looked for ways to liberate himself. His solution: running through muddy fields and up rocky fells, running with his dog at dawn, running because he's being (voluntarily) chased by a pack of bloodhounds, running to get hopelessly, enjoyably lost, running fast for the sheer thrill of it. Running as nature intended.

What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture.

An audio adaptation of the bestselling Principles title. This 90-minute tape offers a simple and practical introduction to this beautiful martial art that originated in Ancient China. Tai Chi is practised through a series of continuous flowing movements which encourage the flow of chi, or...

Joe Friel is the most trusted coach in the world and his proven triathlon training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport of triathlon. Joe has greatly updated this new Fifth Edition of The Triathlete's Training Bible to incorporate new training methods, especially on workout intensity, to help athletes train smarter and produce better results than ever. The Triathlete’s Training Bible equips triathletes of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day.

A breakthrough program for triathletes -- beginner, intermediate, and advanced -- showing how to balance training intensity to maximize performance -- from a fitness expert and elite coach. Cutting-edge research has proven that triathletes and other endurance athletes experience their greatest...

No Dig guru Charles Dowding uses 40 years of growing experience to recommend which crops to grow successfully together, how to time it right, and how to harvest in particular ways, to grow the tastiest, pest-free crops as space-efficiently as possible. Carrots between lettuces, fennel between...

Weight Loss Hypnosis for Women is a practical, easy-to-understand and follow weight loss program. It helps you create a personalized, step-by-step plan to help you achieve your goals. The book is written in an easy-to-understand and practical manner that will not overwhelm you with information or overwhelm you with a long list of exercises. The book is designed to help you incorporate healthy eating habits and a sustainable lifestyle into your daily routine.

‘This book is AMAZING!’ Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Outliers and Blink 'Reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits.' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Hidden Potential ‘Anyone who has ever felt exhausted, whether from heat or cold or altitude or pain or simply...

Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times best-selling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging - weakness, sore joints, bad balance - and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent Neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain - all the way down to the cellular level.  

You aren’t stuck with the body you have. You can make it better, even if you’ve mishandled it, and it’s far simpler than many people believe. Because here’s the truth: Every day, your body’s biology is changing. It’s getting stronger or weaker, younger or older, healthier or sicker, and the driving factor behind these changes isn’t your genes, environment, or even your age—it’s your lifestyle.

This groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer and bestselling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case for Keto shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong. “Gary Taubes is a brave and bold science journalist who does not accept conventional...

SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin Walking the Americas chronicles Levison Wood's 1,800 mile trek along the...

Let Dr. Marc Bubbs be your personal trainer in this accessible guide - aimed exclusively at those in their 40s. Create a customized program that works for you - from diet to sleep, type of training and mindset, this book has all the tools you need.

Dr. Juliet McGrattan is here to help you make sense of all the benefits and challenges of running through menopause. Starting with a refresher on what actually goes on in your body during that time, she also touches on all the common symptoms to look out for before delving into topics such as energy levels, bones, muscles, skin, mental health, treatments, nutrition, and more.

From a leading nutrition researcher, this diet book offers easy to follow guidance and meal plans so you can lose the weight and keep it off—without depriving yourself the way other diets require. As a society, we keep looking for ways to lose weight—preferably ones that are simple...