Championship Swimming

Author : Tracey McFarlane-Mirande
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071820051
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( 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.

Author : Terry Laughlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451688334
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( 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.

Author : Ed Nessel
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402732560
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swim to Win written by Ed Nessel and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swimmers of all ages and abilities will find this illustrated guide a key reference to the art and technique of the sport. Acclaimed Masters Coach Ed Nessel, who holds advanced degrees in biochemistry and physiology, offers valuable insight into the science of swimming, including nutrition, the body’s adaptation to vigorous exercise, the proper balance of training (both in and out of the pool) with rest and recovery, and keys to staying healthy. Plus he covers the fine points of each stroke: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and individual medley each get a chapter, and race skills also receive close attention. Detailed line drawings, charts and tables, anecdotes, and a year’s training cycle for competitive swimmers make this a must for anyone headed into the pool.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152052515
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Champion Swimmer written by David A. Adler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman's gritty determination to succeed

Author : V K Sharma
Publisher : New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9353621887
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health-Physical Edn-TB-11_E-R2 written by V K Sharma and published by New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of Physical education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4N/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official swimming guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jewish People's Institute of Chicago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the General Director written by Jewish People's Institute of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie Checkoway
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455523437
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three-Year Swim Club written by Julie Checkoway and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot. They had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields. Their future was in those same fields, working alongside their parents in virtual slavery, known not by their names but by numbered tags that hung around their necks. Their teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, was an ordinary man whose swimming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water. In spite of everything, including the virulent anti-Japanese sentiment of the late 1930s, in their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size; in their second year, they were national and international champs, shattering American and world records and making headlines from L.A. to Nazi Germany. In their third year, they'd be declared the greatest swimmers in the world. But they'd also face their greatest obstacle: the dawning of a world war and the cancellation of the Games. Still, on the battlefield, they'd become the 20th century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they'd have one last chance for Olympic glory. They were the Three-Year Swim Club. This is their story.

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Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the New York Athletic Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Loynd
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593357051
Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book The Watermen written by Michael Loynd and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal) “Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat . . . captures the imagination of the public. . . . Add The Watermen by Michael Loynd to this illustrious list.”—Swimming World Winner of the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Paragon Award and the Buck Dawson Authors Award In the early twentieth century, few Americans knew how to swim, and swimming as a competitive sport was almost unheard of. That is, until Charles Daniels took to the water. On the surface, young Charles had it all: high-society parents, a place at an exclusive New York City prep school, summer vacations in the Adirondacks. But the scrawny teenager suffered from extreme anxiety thanks to a sadistic father who mired the family in bankruptcy and scandal before abandoning Charles and his mother altogether. Charles’s only source of joy was swimming. But with no one to teach him, he struggled with technique—until he caught the eye of two immigrant coaches hell-bent on building a U.S. swim program that could rival the British Empire’s seventy-year domination of the sport. Interwoven with the story of Charles’s efforts to overcome his family’s disgrace is the compelling history of the struggle to establish the modern Olympics in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy. When the powerful British Empire finally legitimized the Games by hosting the fourth Olympiad in 1908, Charles’s hard-fought rise climaxed in a gold-medal race where British judges prepared a trap to ensure the American upstart’s defeat. Set in the early days of a rapidly changing twentieth century, The Watermen—a term used at the time to describe men skilled in water sports—tells an engrossing story of grit, of the growth of a major new sport in which Americans would prevail, and of a young man’s determination to excel.