Core Performance

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  • ID: 6762
  • Added: 2025-11-30
  • Updated: 2025-11-30
  • Reviews: 2
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barnesandnoble.com · Unknown · 2025-12-11
excellent 4.50

Core Performance Endurance is a valuable resource for endurance athletes, focusing on improving performance and avoiding injuries. The book emphasizes the importance of movement efficiency and provides a unique workout regime tailored to the needs of endurance athletes.

Core Performance Endurance, co-authored by Mark Verstegen and Pete Williams, is a comprehensive guide for endurance athletes. The book is divided into four parts: The Core Endurance Mindset, Core Endurance Movement, Core Endurance Nutrition, and The Core Endurance Workout. The second part, Core Endurance Movement, is particularly noteworthy as it introduces the concept of Pillar Strength and emphasizes the importance of efficiency in training. The nutritional advice, while similar to their previous book, is tailored to the specific needs of endurance athletes. The workout regime introduced in the final part is unique and designed to improve both biomechanical efficiency and performance. Overall, the book provides valuable insights and practical advice for athletes of all levels.


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    The foundation of this text lies in Verstegen's first book, _Core Performance_, but expands further based on the consideration of the typical high-volume and -intensity training programs of endurance athletes.

    While I respect the content of this text in its entirety, the heart and soul of _**Core Performance Endurance**_ lies in this section (_part 2_) through its potential to stimulate thought in the "experienced" athlete and pull him or her out of his/her comfort zone and into a new, more effective training mentality.

    While the world of sports performance and injury prevention continually evolve with contemporary research, _Core Performance Endurance_ indeed provides a valuable educational resource to athletes of all levels and abilities.

jeffcubos.com · Unknown · 2025-12-11
mixed 3.50

Core Performance is a comprehensive fitness program integrating diet, exercise, and recovery, aimed at improving overall fitness. The book emphasizes pillar strength, dynamic stretching, and a balanced diet, though it includes some controversial advice and myths.

Core Performance is designed as an integrated program focusing on diet, exercise, and rest. It's a 12-week program aimed at the average trainee, with an optional 3-week preparatory phase. The book emphasizes pillar strength, which includes the abs, lower back, upper back, and gluteals, aiming to develop postural muscles for better power transfer. The program includes movement prep, prehab, physioball routines, elasticity training, strength training, energy system development, and regeneration. The diet is Zone-like, emphasizing lean protein, good fats, and whole foods. While the program is well-integrated and comprehensive, it includes some controversial advice and myths, such as the idea that you can lengthen muscles instead of building bulk.


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    The act of signing on might be very effective for some trainees.

    This isn't just a feel-good system of exercises with a swiss ball, although it's occasionally portrayed that way.

    It's maddening to see this stuff, because it's so wrong, yet the book's overall program is so clearly well put together.

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