Trim seconds off your time, train more efficiently, or simply maximize your fitness workouts with Mastering Swimming.

Renowned coaches Jim Montgomery and Mo Chambers have teamed up to create the ultimate swimming guide for masters athletes. Swimmers aged 18 to 120 will benefit from a targeted approach that covers these essentials:

-Stroke instruction and refinement for freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly

-Workout plans for fitness and competition

-Training for open-water swimming and triathlon

-Second-saving starts and turns

In addition, Mastering Swimming covers equipment, dryland training, motivational strategies, and guidance for selecting a masters coach or program. With such complete coverage, it's the one resource you'll turn to time and again for a lifetime of serious swimming.

Author: Jim Montgomery, Mo Chambers
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Human Kinetics (2008-10-27)
ISBN: 0736074538
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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Author: Frank Eugen Dalton
Paperback: 196 pages
Company: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (2010-09-10)
ISBN: 1165671344
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From more powerful strokes to quicker turns, propel yourself to improved times with Complete Conditioning for Swimming.

This multidimensional training program uses fitness assessments to tailor strength, endurance, and flexibility exercises to each swimmer's individual needs.

Dave Salo, coach of Olympic medalists Lenny Krayzelburg, Aaron Peirsol, Amanda Beard, and Jason Lezak, and Scott A. Riewald, performance specialist for the U.S. Olympic Committee, have teamed up to create a comprehensive program that provides you with the following tools to improve your times:

-Exercises and drills for each stroke

-Event-based workouts and programs

-Dryland training

-Tapering for peak performance

-Year-round conditioning plans

-Nutrition before, during, and after swim meets

In addition, the 80-minute DVD takes you to the pool and into the gym to demonstrate the drills and exercises used by the sport's elite. Complete Conditioning for Swimming is simply the best guide to preparing your body for competitive success.

Author: David Salo, Scott Riewald
Paperback: 256 pages
Company: Human Kinetics (2008-06-30)
ISBN: 073607242X
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Want more from your workout? Whether you seek to improve your technique, trim your times, swim greater distances, or simply improve your fitness level, Fitness Swimming will help you achieve your goals, all in full-color.

Expert swim coach Emmett Hines has created 60 new workouts and 16 sample programs, each arranged into suggested training zones to correspond to your fitness level and performance goals. Over a dozen cutting-edge technique drills help you progressively build an effective freestyle stroke. The text covers stretching, warm-up and cool-down methods, heart rate zone targets, expanded instruction for stroke efficacy, progressive drills, conditioning tips, and fitness assessments. Fitness Swimming has all the information you need to chart progress and maintain peak performance.

Author: Emmett Hines
Paperback: 232 pages
Company: Human Kinetics (2008-06-30)
ISBN: 0736074570
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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.

Author: Ian McLeod
Paperback: 200 pages SHK01380
Company: Human Kinetics (2009-10-22)
ISBN: 0736075712
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Swim better -- and enjoy every lap -- with Total Immersion!

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.

Author: Terry Laughlin
Paperback: 320 pages
Company: Touchstone (2004-01-08) (2004-05-18)
ISBN: 0743253434
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Become more fluid in the water with Swimming: Steps to Success. This comprehensive guide provides progressive instruction to help you master several swimming strokes and skills: backstroke, front crawl, breaststroke, butterfly, sidestroke, back crawl, trudgen, floating, diving, sculling, and underwater swimming.

Step-by-step instruction and 195 illustrations break down each stroke to the basic arm and leg movements and their timing. The multiple drills in each step include a scoring system to gauge success and determine readiness to advance to the next skill.

Part of the highly successful Steps to Success Series series, with more than 1.5 million copies sold, Swimming: Steps to Success is the best tool for learning to swim at your own pace and an excellent resource for mastering skills through the advanced level.

Author: David Thomas
Paperback: 200 pages
Company: Human Kinetics (2005-02-03)
ISBN: 0736054367
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Improve your times by improving your technique! Whether you are a competitive swimmer, coach, triathlete, or dedicated fitness enthusiast, The Swimming Drill Book will propel you to better results by maximizing efficiency in the water.

With 128 highly effective drills, expert instruction, and more than 375 detailed illustrations, you can use this comprehensive resource to improve every facet of your swimming. Establish a greater sense of balance and position in the water; maintain perfect form for the freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly; and master the techniques for starts, turns, and finishes. Use the drills individually or create a personalized program based on your goals and fitness level. Either way, the tools you need are within your grasp.

Dive into The Swimming Drill Book and see fast results!

Author: Ruben Guzman
Paperback: 296 pages
Company: Human Kinetics (2006-11-27)
ISBN: 0736062513
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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming is the most comprehensive and up-to-date swimming-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round swimming-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other swimming book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book was designed specially for swimmers to increase strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. Not long after you begin following this guide you will cut seconds off of all of your strokes. Swimmers of all skill levels will be able to finish without running out of gas and will be able to swim at record paces until the end of the meet.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

Author: Rob Price
Paperback: 176 pages Year-round swimming-specific weight-training programs, Descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 exercises, Used by top swimers worldwide, Perfect for swimers of all ages and skill levels, Includes links to free record-keeping charts
Company: Price World Publishing (2005-05-01)
ISBN: 1932549390
List Price: $16.95
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Born in a landlocked town in the center of Kansas, Pip is tall, flat, smart, funny, and supernaturally buoyant. On land, she has her share of troubles: an agoraphobic mother, a lost father, and a school full of nuns who just want her to sit still. But in the water, Pip is unstoppable. Swimming her way from a small Midwestern team to the Barcelona Olympics, Pip’s journey is the story of a young girl with an unsinkable spirit, struggling to stay afloat in the only way she can.

Author: Nicola Keegan
Paperback: 320 pages ISBN13: 9780307454614, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Company: Vintage (2010-07-13) (2010-07-13)
ISBN: 0307454614
List Price: $14.95
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The Kayenne opens up the playing field – quite literally. Oversized lenses with our patented curved lens technology gives you style while providing an undistorted, expanded, 180-degree field of vision. An all new super slim microframe keeps the goggle close to the face for superior, low-drag hydrodynamic performance. And an updated one-touch buckle makes fitting easier than ever. Pair these new technologies with Aqua Sphere’s standard UV protection, leak resistance, anti-fog and scratch resistant lenses, and the Kayenne is easily the most superior performance swim goggle available

Sports: The Kayenne with clear lenses are designed to provide the greatest visibility indoors or in low light., Oversized, ultra durable Plexisol lens for 4-point expanded, 180-degree visibility, One-piece, hydrodynamic microframe made of hypoallergenic Softeril, One-touch, Quick-Fit Buckle for perfect fit with simple adjustments - even while wearing, Anti-fog and scratch resistant lens
Company: Aqua Sphere (2009-12-02)
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The Speedo Deluxe Mesh Equipment Bag is the perfect accessory to haul your accessories and keep all of your swim equipment in one place. The quick drying mesh fabric allows for air flow so that wet suits or towels don't get moldy or smelly in between uses. And it is plenty big enough for everything you need from swim paddles, to goggles, to suits and towels. The 420 denier side panels give this bag greater durability while the webbed shoulder straps offer greater comfort. It comes in traditional team colors or fashion colors, so is perfect for team or personal use. In easy care 100% nylon, it measures 25-Inch x 19-Inch.

Sports: Mesh fabric for airflow and dryability, 420 Denier Nylon on front and back for greater durability, Webbing shoulder straps and hang loop with ID holder, Be at the top of your game in or out of the water as you play, train, or win in Speedo, the choice of champions, Made by Speedo, the world's #1 swim brand
Company: Speedo (2010-10-10)
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Excellent competition goggle with shatter-resistant, polycarbonate lens with UV potection, anti-fog coating, and hypoallergenic soft silicone seals. It comes with a silicone double-length head-strap for more secure fit. Very popular Speedo goggle style!

Sports: Silicone seal and strap, 95% UV protection and anti-fog coating, Three nose bridges for custom fit, Double silicone strap for secure fit
Company: Speedo
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Lightweight and durable cap that is designed to hold dome shape and rounded fit with no wrinkles, which reduces drag. The silicone allows the head to breathe for a more comfortable fit and can be stretched to more than double its original size. Quick and easy to take on and off without snagging hair.

Sports: Solid-color silicone swim cap, Designed to securely hug the head to reduce drag, Silicone allows head to breathe for a more comfortable fit, Can be stretched to more than double its original size, Resistant to hair snagging and tearing
Company: Speedo
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This is a great training tool to build strength and endurance during your lap work outs. Our Pull Buoy is one of Speedo's best selling items. Train on and train strong with Speedo, the water experts and most popular swim brand in the world!

Sports: Training tool to help develop upper body strength by suspending and floating your legs, Promotes proper body positioning, Made of soft durable EVA foam, New updated colors to withstand pool chemicals
Company: Speedo (2009-01-15)
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Contoured swim paddles help to develop proper stroke mechanics. These are contoured to fit any hand and reduce fatigue. Great training aid to improve freestyle stroke and gain muscle endurance.

Sports: Polypropolene paddle, Silicone strap, Develops proper stroke mechanics., Wrist strap for better paddle control., Holes in paddle allow better feel of the water., Made by Speedo, #1 swim brand worldwide!
Company: Speedo
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Forearm brace

Sports: Improve your stroke efficiency and technique, The process of placing the hand through the two sections of the Forearm Fulcrum creates an ideal elbow-wrist angle., This positioning of the forearm creates the most efficient application of propulsive force., Sizes: Jr. (for smaller arms or under the age of 12) and Sr., U.S.A. and International Patents Pending
Company: FINIS (2008-09-17)
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A Neoprene glove with webbed fingers and a rubber palm with adjustable wrist closure and ultra flexible webbing for use during water resistance training. Helps create smoother movement in the water for a more comfortable upper body workout. They also add propulsion through the water. Ideal for water aerobics and pool workouts.

Sports: Neoprene gloves for water resistance training, Helps tone and strengthen muscles, Webbed fingers, rubber palm, Adjustable wrist closure, Get increased propulsion through the water
Company: Speedo
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If you like our original Vanquisher Plus mirrored goggle, you will love this next generation Vanquisher 2.0 Plus with 25% more peripheral vision. It has the same soft silicone seal and a new two color double headstrap with ergonomic clip for super easy adjustability and a snug watertight fit. The ultra mirrored lens reduces any glare and the Anti Fog coating will allow clear vision. This is definitely one of Speedo's most popular goggles!

Sports: Mirrored goggles designed for competition swimmers, Pearlescent mirrored filter minimizes glare and improves visibility, Expanded side view; rigid hard frame creates watertight seal, Low-profile fit; anti-fog polycarbonate lens; PVC- and latex-free, Interchangeable nosepiece with 4 different sizes
Company: Speedo (2009-03-18)
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No fitting or sizing needed for these pre-molded flanged silicone earplugs designed for ultra soft, ultra comfortable, waterproof protection. Mack's unique triple flange design allows for a more customized fit, which increases its sealing ability and improves wearer comfort. Doctor recommended to seal out water, Mack's AquaBlock Earplugs help prevent swimmer's ear and surfer's ear. Shatterproof carrying case included.

Misc.: Shatterproof carrying case included., Two pair per box.
Company: McKeon Products, Inc.
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