Core Performance – Endurance (book) – THE CORE training programme continues! Following the sensational success of the books “CORE Performance” and “The CORE Programme”, the German national football team’s fitness coach has now released another title. The Core Endurance Programme helps endurance athletes to make their training more efficient and prevent injuries. For anyone who feels they can no longer improve their performance in running, swimming or cycling due to a lack of time, a lack of motivation or their age, this book is just the thing. Mark Verstegen shows how to break through a plateau and achieve new performance goals. He presents a simple, holistic training programme that enables better results to be achieved despite shorter training sessions. Among other things, he emphasises a specific warm-up routine and attaches great importance to the correct execution of movements when running, swimming and cycling. The programme is complemented by a nutrition plan developed specifically for endurance athletes. This is the English edition of the book, which comprises a total of 238 pages.

With his book *Core Performance*, Mark Verstegen revolutionised the fitness industry and popularised functional training and the targeted strengthening of the core muscles. In his role as founder and president of the elite training centres EXOS, formerly Athletes’ Performance, Verstegen has, in recent years, prepared top athletes from football, American football and baseball, as well as elite soldiers from the US Special Operations Forces, for their missions.He has also been responsible for the fitness of the German national football team at the World Cup and European Championships for many years. Now, at last, the fitness expert and bestselling author is revealing the training programme he uses with the professionals: a demanding system that enables top athletes to reach their maximum potential and compete at the very highest level.For this book, Verstegen has translated his concept into tough yet easily implementable workouts that give the trainee speed, explosiveness and strength, whilst also making their movement patterns more efficient and reducing the risk of injury. This programme is perfect for anyone who wants to train as hard as the super-champions of elite sport or special forces personnel in elite combat units. About the authors: Mark Verstegen, born in 1969, is one of the leading experts in competitive sport. The world’s best athletes train at his Athletes’ Performance training centre in Tempe, Arizona. His revolutionary training programme, ‘Core Performance’, has set international standards. The books *Core Performance* and *Core Performance Golf*, as well as the DVDs *Core Performance Football*, *Core Performance Tennis* and *Core Performance Golf*, were published by riva Verlag. Pete Williams, born in 1969, studied at the University of Virginia. He writes for various magazines and has already published 13 books on sport and fitness, including the *Core Performance* series with Mark Verstegen.