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The Swimming Strokes Book

Author : Mark Young
Publisher : Educate and Learn Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0992742811
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Swimming Strokes Book written by Mark Young and published by Educate and Learn Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning how to swim can be a frustrating experience sometimes, especially for an adult. Kick with your legs, pull with your arms, breathe in, and breathe out and do it all at the right time. Before you know it you’ve got a hundred and one things to think about and do all at the same time or in the right sequence. The Swimming Strokes Book is designed to break each stroke down into its component parts, those parts being body position, legs, arms, breathing and timing and coordination. An exercise or series of exercises are then assigned to that part along with relevant teaching points and technique tips, to help focus only on that stroke part. Although it is not the same as having a swimming teacher with you to correct you, this book perfectly compliments lessons or helps to enhance your practice time in the pool. The 82 exercises form reference sections for each swimming stroke, complete with technique tips, teaching points and common mistakes for each individual exercise. Clear, concise and easy-to-follow.

Total Immersion

Author : Terry Laughlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451688334
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Total Immersion written by Terry Laughlin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swim better—and enjoy every lap—with Total Immersion, a guide to improving your swimming from an expert with more than thirty years of experience in the water. Terry Laughlin, the world’s #1 authority on swimming success, has made his unique approach even easier for anyone to master. Whether you’re an accomplished swimmer or have always found swimming to be a struggle, Total Immersion will show you that it’s mindful fluid movement—not athletic ability—that will turn you into an efficient swimmer. This new edition of the bestselling Total Immersion features: -A thoughtfully choreographed series of skill drills—practiced in the mindful spirit of yoga—that can help anyone swim more enjoyably -A holistic approach to becoming one with the water and to developing a swimming style that’s always comfortable -Simple but thorough guidance on how to improve fitness and form -A complementary land-and-water program for achieving a strong and supple body at any age Based on more than thirty years of teaching, coaching, and research, Total Immersion has dramatically improved the physical and mental experience of swimming for thousands of people of all ages and abilities.

Swimming Fastest

Author : Ernest W. Maglischo
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736031806
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Swimming Fastest written by Ernest W. Maglischo and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2003 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to competitive swimming containing detailed overviews of the four primary strokes; racing strategies; and the most effective training methods and the science behind why they work.

Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes

Author : Sheila Taormina
Publisher : VeloPress
ISBN 13 : 1937716600
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (377 download)

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Book Synopsis Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes by : Sheila Taormina

Download or read book Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes written by Sheila Taormina and published by VeloPress. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her best-selling book Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian and gold medalist Sheila Taormina revealed the freestyle swimming technique used by the world's fastest swimmers. Now in Swim Speed Strokes Taormina shows swimmers and triathletes how they can swim with elite technique in all four swimming strokes--butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. Using crystal-clear photographs and her engaging, straightforward style, Coach Taormina explains the science behind power and speed in the water, explores the elements common to every stroke, and examines stroke technique in detail in individual stroke chapters. Swim Speed Strokes goes deep into the fastest swimming technique for each stroke, breaking down the pull, kick, core movement, and timing of 13 elite swimmers and Olympians including Peter Vanderkaay, Rebecca Soni, Aaron Peirsol, Rowdy Gaines, Ashley Whitney, Vlad Morozov, Ariana Kukors, Andrew Gemmell, Laura Sogar, Nicolas Fink, Elizabeth Beisel, Doug Reynolds, and Melanie Margalis. Taormina interviews each athlete and analyzes underwater photos and race stroke data to break down their technique in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. From the catch through the curvilinear path and diagonal phase to the power-packed finish phase, Taormina explores the pull patterns to show how any swimmer can improve their own swimming. As Taormina shows in Swim Speed Strokes, the fastest technique for all four swimming strokes is remarkably similar. One-stroke swimmers will find big improvements in practicing the others, refining their feel for the water, coordination, and stroke efficiency. Whether you want to master every stroke or simply improve on your best one, Swim Speed Strokes will show you how to become the strongest swimmer you can be.

Strokes of Genius

Author : Eric Chaline
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238908
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Strokes of Genius written by Eric Chaline and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be better than diving into cool water on a hot day? In this enormously enjoyable and informative history of swimming, Eric Chaline sums up this most summery of moments with one phrase: pleasure beckons at the water’s edge. Strokes of Genius traces the history of swimming from the first civilizations to its current worldwide popularity as a sport, fitness pastime, and leisure activity. Chaline explores swimming’s role in ritual, early trade and manufacturing, warfare, and medicine, before describing its transformation in the early modern period into a leisure activity and a competitive sport—the necessary precursors that have made it the most common physical pastime in the developed world. The book celebrates the physicality and sensuality of swimming—attributes that Chaline argues could have contributed to the evolution of the human species. Swimming, like other disciplines that use repetitive movements to train the body and quiet the mind, is also a means of spiritual awakening—a personal journey of discovery. Swimming has attained the status of a cultural marker, denoting eroticism, leisure, endurance, adventure, exploration, and excellence. Strokes of Genius shows that there is not a single story of human swimming, but many currents that merge, diverge, and remerge. Chaline argues that swimming will become particularly important as we look toward a warmer future in which our survival may depend on our ability to adapt to life in an aquatic world.

Swim Speed Secrets for Swimmers and Triathletes

Author : Sheila Taormina
Publisher : VeloPress
ISBN 13 : 1937716171
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Swim Speed Secrets for Swimmers and Triathletes written by Sheila Taormina and published by VeloPress. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion Sheila Taormina reveals the swim technique used by the world’s fastest swimmers. Over the course of 4 Olympic Games and throughout her career as a world champion triathlete, Taormina refined her exceptional technique as a student of the sport, studying the world’s best swimmers using underwater photographs and video analysis. From Johnny Weissmuller to Michael Phelps, the world’s fastest swimmers share two common elements: high stroke rate and a high-elbow underwater pull. Many swimmers and triathletes neglect the underwater pull, distracted by stroke count or perfecting less critical details like body position, streamlining, and roll. Swim Speed Secrets focuses on producing power—the most crucial element of swimming—to help triathletes and swimmers overhaul their swim stroke and find the speed that’s been eluding them. With a commonsense approach that comes from decades of practice and years of hands-on coaching experience, Taormina shows swimmers how to transition to faster swimming. Swim Speed Secrets includes: The best drills to cultivate a more sensitive feel for the water Dryland and strength building exercises to develop arm position and upper body musculature Crisp photos of Olympic swimmers and variations in their high-elbow underwater pull Clear descriptions of the key moments of the underwater pull Tips that helped her perform at a world-class level for two decades Sheila Taormina’s Swim Speed Secrets brings the focus back where it belongs—to a powerful underwater stroke. With this approach, triathletes and swimmers can stop swimming for survival and break through to new levels of speed and confidence in the water.

Breakthrough Swimming

Author : Cecil Colwin
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736037778
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Breakthrough Swimming written by Cecil Colwin and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has one book taken such a comprehensive look at the evolution, science, and coaching application of competitive swimming. In Breakthrough Swimming, legendary swimming coach and researcher Cecil Colwin provides a rich perspective on the development of the sport and explains major advances in stroke mechanics, training methods, and racing techniques. Accompanied by richly detailed illustrations, this engaging text is one of the most insightful written works on the sport. It makes clear sense out of the scientific principles and puts into context the historical changes in the sport. Not only will you gain a greater understanding of competitive swimming through its origins and evolution, but you'll also gain these valuable skills: - Improve your stroke technique, starts, and turns. - Improve your feel of the water by learning to anticipate and effectively manipulate the reacting flow of the water. - Understand the hydrodynamics of swimming and learn how water reacts to the forces you apply with each swimming stroke. - Improve your conditioning and develop a better training program by understanding the principles of training. - Learn how to design different types of workouts to produce specific physiological effects. - Learn how to plan a seasonal program and how to relate your training to the pace of the race you intend to swim. The book includes a chapter contributed by Dr. David Pyne, sport physiologist to the 2000 Australian Olympic swimming team. Pyne covers the physiology of modern swimming training and the preparation of swimming teams for top-flight international competition. Breakthrough Swimming covers every aspect of competitive swimming from its spawning ground in early 19th-century England to the present day, including the profound changes that occurred in the last decade of the 20th century. The book also explains the societal changes of recent years, such as the advent of professional swimming and the specter of performance-enhancing drugs. Combining history with the latest innovations, Breakthrough Swimming is the definitive work on the past, present, and future of competitive swimming.

The Complete Guide to Swimming Front Crawl

Author : Mark Young
Publisher : Educate and Learn Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780957003118
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Swimming Front Crawl written by Mark Young and published by Educate and Learn Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Guide to Swimming Front Crawl is the perfect quick flick for anyone wanting an easy to follow, concise and simplistic guide book. For the complete beginner, this short book helps to learn and understand the basic swimming stroke. The 22 fully illustrated exercises contained in this book cover all aspects of the stroke and can help any beginner to learn, practice and master basic front crawl swimming technique.

Swimming Drill Book-Google Edition, The

Author : Ruben J. Guzman
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1450408125
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Swimming Drill Book-Google Edition, The written by Ruben J. Guzman and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2007 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Swimming Drills for Every Stroke

Author : Ruben J. Guzman
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780880117692
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Swimming Drills for Every Stroke written by Ruben J. Guzman and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swimming coach Ruben Guzman offers this tool kit for developing effective stroke technique that features 91 drills covering all strokes, as well as turns and finishes for each stroke. 9 photos, 218 illustrations.

The Complete Guide to Simple Swimming

Author : Mark Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957003156
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Simple Swimming written by Mark Young and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything you need to know from first entering the water, to performing the four basic swimming strokes."

Swimming Made Easy

Author : Terry Laughlin
Publisher : Total Immersion Swimming, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781931009010
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Swimming Made Easy written by Terry Laughlin and published by Total Immersion Swimming, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Swimming Anatomy

Author : Ian A. McLeod
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1492583219
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Swimming Anatomy written by Ian A. McLeod and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See how to achieve stronger starts, more explosive turns, and faster times! Swimming Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by increasing muscle strength and optimizing the efficiency of every stroke. Swimming Anatomy includes 74 of the most effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action. Swimming Anatomy goes beyond exercises by placing you on the starting block, in the water, and into the throes of competition. Illustrations of the active muscles for starts, turns, and the four competitive strokes (freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, and backstroke) show you how each exercise is fundamentally linked to swimming performance. You’ll also learn how exercises can be modified to target specific areas, improve your form in the water, and minimize common swimming injuries. Best of all, you’ll learn how to put it all together to develop a training program based on your individual needs and goals. Whether you are training for a 50-meter freestyle race or the open-water stage of a triathlon, Swimming Anatomy will ensure you enter the water prepared to achieve every performance goal.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Swimming

Author : Mike Bottom
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101513691
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Swimming written by Mike Bottom and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive in! The water's fine Packed with clear, professional instructions, helpful tips and advice, and information on indoor and "open" (ocean) swimming, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Swimming, has everything a swimmer needs, no matter what skill level, to make the most of their time in the water. • Detailed instructions for the four basic strokes-breast stroke, backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle-as well as the "fifth stroke" dolphin kick • Features beautiful underwater and above-water photographs • Information on programs and exercise drills for fitness and competition

How To Swim Breaststroke

Author : Mark Young
Publisher : Educate and Learn Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0957003188
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book How To Swim Breaststroke written by Mark Young and published by Educate and Learn Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always wanted to learn how to swim Breaststroke? Do you find basic breaststroke technique difficult? How To Swim Breaststroke is your perfect guidebook, with over 20 simple exercises containing top tips and key coaching points. Fully illustrated and concise, you will discover: How to learn basic Breaststroke in easy steps How to swim with smooth relaxed technique How to isolate and correct your bad habits The perfect aid for any complete beginner to learn, understand and practice and for any swimmer to adjust, correct and improve.

The Complete Book of Swimming

Author : Phillip Whitten
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307808491
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of Swimming written by Phillip Whitten and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-purpose guide to swimming, for beginners and experts alike, that will help make you fitter, faster, more efficient, and more knowledgeable about this wonderful sport. The Complete Book of Swimming is written for those folks who want to become physically fit and stay physically for the rest of their lives; for folks who are seeking to enhance their lives. There are chapters on the different strokes that provide the “how-to” information people need to get started. Equally important are the chapters that answer such questions as Why should I swim? Why swimming and not some other sport? How can swimming improve my health? How can it enhance my life? How will I become a better person—more vital, more competent, vigorous, sexy . . . alive by swimming? Praise for The Complete Book of Swimming “Phil Witten not only explains the ‘how to’ of swimming in clear, easy-to-understand language, but he also explains the ‘why’ of swimming: why swimming can make you healthier, happier, and sexier, and can make you feel younger. If The Complete Book of Swimming doesn’t convince you that swimming is the best thing you could possibly do for your health, then nothing will.”—Mark Spitz “Finally a book has been written that will put swimming on the map for the general public. Phil Witten combines a storyteller’s gift for creating excitement with scientific knowledge and personal experience. The Complete Book of Swimming is a must read for swimmers (and coaches) at every level, and for anyone interested in lifelong fitness and health.”—Skip Kennedy, Olympic coaching staff, men’s swimming; men’s swimming coach, Stanford University (NCAA champions) “Dr. Whitten has written the perfect all-purpose guide. It’s a useful tool for both experienced swimmers who want to improve, and for rookies who aren’t sure where to begin. The Complete Book of Swimming is an invaluable source for all aging baby boomers.”—Karen Allen, USA Today “Passion arouses passion, and Dr. Whitten surely cannot fail to persuade aspiring swimmers of all ages and abilities that the sport of swimming is the way to a healthier, happier existence. This is a splendid invitation to beginners, while offering a clearer insight to those who have already donned their suits and goggles. The writing is instructive and entertaining, and the illustrations depict the very latest techniques used in the pool.”—Craig Lord, The Times (London)

Championship Swimming

Author : Tracey McFarlane-Mirande
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071820051
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Championship Swimming written by Tracey McFarlane-Mirande and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an Olympic medalist, a proven, step-by-step program for helping you swim your best Endorsed by Olympic gold medalist Jenny Thompson and written by two-time Olympic winner Tracey McFarlane-Mirande, Championship Swimming brings Olympic-level techniques and training to intermediate swimmers who want to achieve their best. With her proven program, McFarlane-Mirande takes you from 0 to 60 in just 30 days. This comprehensive manual features: Step-by-step drills for improved strokes and more enjoyable workouts Tips on how to eliminate "drag" Techniques for swimming more powerfully with less effort Dry-land exercises Easy-to-follow illustrations From intermediate to competitive swimming, Championship Swimming is sure to improve the quality of every swim, whether for leisure, exercise, or going for the gold.