Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier
If you think fastest way to better swimming is more laps, you're wasting your
breath, literally. Now you can swim better -- and enjoy it more -- using simple
and original techniques developed by veteran swim coach and top-ranked Masters
swimmer Terry Laughlin. Laughing has helped more adults to swim faster, more
smoothly, and with less effort than any other swimming coach in the country.
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Workouts in a Binder: Swim Workouts for Triathletes
The workouts in this set provide a handy, compact, inspiring — and waterproof —
program. Written by an elite-level triathlon and cycling coach, and a former
U.S. National Team swimming coach, the book comprises seven workout categories:
Anaerobic Endurance Speed, Anaerobic Endurance Form, Force Speed, Force Form,
Muscular Endurance Speed, Muscular Endurance Form, and Muscular Endurance
Distance. The variety of workouts included and their ease of use keep the
process engaging and allow users to more easily achieve elusive swimming goals.
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The Waterproof Coach: The Waterproof Workout Book for Fitness Swimmers and Triathletes
The Waterproof Coach is a unique, self-paced workout book for
swimmers and triathletes. This book is completely waterproof. Swimmers can take
the book pool-side and plan their workout as they swim. Each page of workouts is
cut into three segments--the first segment contains a warm up, the second a main
set, and the third a cool down. The book can easily be configured into over
6,700 different workouts by combining any warm up with any main set and any cool
down.
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Breakthrough Swimming
In Breakthrough Swimming, legendary swimming coach and
historian Cecil Colwin describes how competitive swimmers of the modern era—such
as swimming giants Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett—apply innovative training
methods and stroke techniques to set new standards of performance. All four strokes as well as starts and turns are presented in thorough detail
in Colwin’s easy-to-grasp instructional style.
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The Swim Coaching Bible
The Swim Coaching Bible sets a new high water mark for
competitive swim coaching resources. Experts from around the world offer a
wealth of knowledge on coaching principles and program administration, conducting effective
practice sessions, teaching techniques for every stroke, and training
programs for every event. The Swim Coaching Bible is a landmark work in competitive swimming. If you coach
the sport or want a competitive edge, this book will be the one you refer to
again and again.
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Fitness Swimming (Fitness Spectrum Series)
Improve your swimming technique and your conditioning level
with Fitness Swimming! Inside you’ll find 60 workouts in six zones color-coded
by intensity and duration, plus 16 sample programs that show you how to put
together a complete training program. Written by coach Emmett Hines, Fitness Swimming is part of the Fitness
Spectrum Series—a collection of books from Human Kinetics that offers fitness
enthusiasts and sports participants a practical and flexible approach to
training.
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The Essential Swimmer
This is the essential guide to a successful swimming program
for fitness and competitive swimmers alike, filled with concise, practical
advice on everything from basic stroke technique to advanced training programs.
It will teach you how to identify your own stroke, kick, body position, and
breathing flaws, and provides innovative drills to correct errors in form. Steve
Tarpinian is an experienced swimming coach and an Ironman triathlete.
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Swimming Dynamics - Winning Techniques and Strategies
In an absolutely unique book on the sport of competitive
swimming, veteran swimming coach Cecil Colwin offers a variety of approaches and
materials to give even the most talented swimmers new insights into improving
their skills.
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The Complete Book of Swimming
Experts agree that
swimming is the best and most complete form of excercise. Here is the most
authoritative and comprehensive guide to the sport.
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