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ADVANCED SWIMMING: STEPS TO SUCCESS by: DAVID THOMAS
Help your students refine basic swimming strokes, master competitive strokes, and discover the art of "watermanship" with Advanced Swimming: Steps to Success. This second-level swimming book, by master teacher David Thomas, continues the progression started in Swimming: Steps to Success--part of the Steps to Success Activity Series, the most extensively researched and carefully developed set of sport skill instruction books ever published. Offer swimmers 18 proven steps for mastering advanced skills. In Advanced Swimming: Steps to Success, swimmers climb 18 additional steps to advanced swimming success. This unique skill progression reviews and improves the crawl and breast strokes, introduces the new competitive back and butterfly strokes, and helps swimmers learn competitive strokes and turns. Each step: • explains why the concept or skill is important, • identifies the keys to proper technique, • helps swimmers correct common errors, • explains how to practice each skill in realistic ways, • lists specific performance goals for each drill, • gives swimmers a summary checklist for evaluating proper technique, and • lets swimmers proceed at their own pace. In addition, this advanced book takes swimmers through the evolution of the breaststroke, the sidestroke, the less commonly known overhand sidestroke, and the series of trudgen strokes.
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BREAKTHROUGH SWIMMING by: CECIL COLWIN
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.
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COACHING SWIMMING SUCCESSFULLY - 2ND EDITION by: DICK HANNULA
Over the course of a distinguished coaching career, Dick Hannula led his high school teams to 24 consecutive state championships, was a two-time president of the American Swim Coaches Association, and is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Hannula shares more than 50 years of coaching experience and knowledge in Coaching Swimming Successfully. With input from successful U.S. and international coaches, Hannula presents the latest stroke improvements for greater efficiency and speed as well as new instruction on underwater dolphin kicking techniques. Full practice plans help coaches accomplish more in each training session. Veteran and beginning coaches will learn how to motivate swimmers, become better communicators, and be prepared for the challenges of competitive meets. Hannula reveals his personal coaching philosophy and helps coaches develop their own code of ethics as they build a winning swimming program in and out of the pool. Detailed advice on how to evaluate swimmers’ performances in practice and in competition, as well as the entire swim program, makes this the complete guide to coaching the sport. No matter where you coach, Coaching Swimming Successfully will be the guide you refer to season after season.
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FANTASTIC WATER WORKOUTS by: MARY BETH PAPPAS GAINES
Fantastic Water Workouts contains 90 water exercises that are fun, effective, and easy on your body. All of the exercises in this complete aquatic workout guide make creative use of water`s natural buoyancy and resistance to give you maximum results with a minimum risk of injury. Because the exercises are adaptable, they can be used by anyone--they`re excellent for the ordinary exerciser who wants to add variety and fun to a workout and for exercisers with special health concerns. While many exercise programs feature repetitive actions that work only one part of the body, the exercises in Fantastic Water Workouts are designed to involve the entire body. You can achieve total-body fitness as you perform these exercises that: • strengthen and tone muscles, • improve aerobic endurance, • increase muscle flexibility, and • improve body composition. In Part I of Fantastic Water Workouts, you`ll learn the basic information you need to get started on a safe and enjoyable water exercise program, including how to prepare the best workout environment, how to protect yourself from injury, how to use equipment to enhance your workout, and how to select appropriate music for your workout. In Part II, you`ll find general water exercises for flexibility, aerobics, and muscle strengthening and toning. Using illustrated, step-by-step instructions, the book shows you how to perform 90 different water exercises and explains the benefits of each one. You`ll also learn how to warm up properly and how to cool down after exercising. Part III shows you how to design a water exercise sequence that`s right for your particular body type, health condition, and exercise goals. For example, you`ll find tailored workouts for exercisers with special needs, including: • cardiac recovery patients, • people with arthritis, • people with chronic neck and back pain, • pregnant women, and • older adults. Plus, if you are looking for more advanced exercises, Part III presents two kinds of intensified exercises: aquapower (push-off moves that build strength and aerobic intensity) and plyometrics (jump training techniques that raise aerobic intensity and challenge your muscles). So try the new and challenging water exercises in Fantastic Water Workouts. They provide a safe and fun way for anyone to get in shape!
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FITNESS AQUATICS by: LEANNE CASE
Whether you`re someone seeking a fun way to get in shape or a competitive swimmer looking for a training edge, you`ll find the right workouts for you in Fitness Aquatics. With 60 color-coded workouts varying in length and intensity and three sample training programs, this easy-to-use guide allows you to customize your own workouts. In Part I author and water fitness expert LeAnne Case provides: • information on what equipment to use, • a fitness test to help with knowing where to start your training, • instruction on correct aquatic training technique, and • information and exercises to help you warm up and cool down properly. Part II describes 60 aquatic workouts with exercises are evenly distributed across six color-coded zones according to level of difficulty—green workouts are the easiest, red workouts the hardest. Each workout`s detailed description covers warm-up, training time, technique, difficulty rating, cool-down, gauging calories burned, and workout tips. Part III offers sample programs to help you structure workouts into an overall training regimen. These programs can be used as is or as a guide to develop a routine suited to your specific needs. Fitness Aquatics offers expert advice to help people of all ages and abilities enjoy getting fit.
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FLY AWAY: THE BUTTERFLY STROKE IN SWIMMING, 1995 (VHS) by: MONIKA E. SCHRODER
Fly Away presents a progressive, sequential teaching model that uses an innovative and interactive approach to the butterfly stroke. It adapts moves from ballet, gymnastics, and track and field to help develop and refine stroke technique. Rhythm, body awareness, stroke relaxation, and body undulation are also emphasized as key teaching or coaching points. The video presents the following in simple to complex movement sequences: • Body position and undulation • Arm action • Breathing action • Leg action • Body streamling • Turn-finish action • Special refinements for specific body parts, limbs, and movements
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OPEN WATER SWIMMING by: PENNY LEE DEAN
Author Penny Lee Dean, a swimming legend and world record holder in 13 events, shares her unique knowledge of racing and solo swims in Open Water Swimming. From techniques for swimming in a crowd to navigating a straight line, Dean provides invaluable advice to long-distance swimmers, marathon swimmers, triathletes, and their coaches. Whether you`re a beginning open water swimmer, an accomplished swimmer about to brave the English Channel (which Dean did in world-record time) or a coach for aspiring distance swimmers or triathletes, Open Water Swimming provides the conditioning plans, event profiles, and mental training techniques you need to succeed. Open Water Swimming also features: • 13 stretches for increased flexibility and smooth stroke technique, • 16 practice drills for improved form, and • 43 different workouts for greater endurance. You`ll find profiles of champion open water swimmers and triathletes such as Lynne Cox, Alison Streeter, John York, Captain Matthew Webb, Chad Hundeby, Florence Chadwick, Pete Huisvelds, Shelley Taylor Smith, Paula Newby-Fraser, Karen Smyers, Mike Pigg, and many others. Open Water Swimming also provides contact information for national and international triathlon and swimming organizations as well as race information for 10 open water marathon swims and 11 international triathlon events.
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SWIM COACHING BIBLE, THE by: HANNULA AND THRONTON
The Swim Coaching Bible offers you an all-star, international cast of swimming experts sharing their knowledge on producing the most successful individual athletes and teams in the sport. This book is sure to be a classic—one that swimming coaches reach for again and again. Specifically, The Swim Coaching Bible covers the key principles of coaching and program administration, conducting effective practice sessions, teaching techniques for every stroke, and training programs for every event. Endorsed by the World Swimming Coaches Association, the book shares the wisdom of the world’s best coaches, who address the topics they know best. Contributors include: Dick Hannula and Nort Thornton: A Complete Swimming Resource From All-Star Coaches Richard Quick: Believing in Belief Jean Freeman: Putting Fun Into the Swimming Experience Peter Daland: Coaching With Integrity John Leonard: Tailoring Your Approach to Specific Competition Levels Jack Bauerle: Administering and Marketing a Winning Program Skip Kenney: Developing a Successful Team Bill Sweetenham: Maximizing Swimmers’ Talent Development Jill Sterkel: Planning for Short- and Long-Range Performances Bruce Mason: Putting Science Into Practices Deryk Snelling: Applying the Art of Coaching Rick DeMont: Freestyle Dick Hannula: Backstroke Pablo Morales: Butterfly David Salo: Breaststroke John Trembley: Starts, Turns, and Finishes Mike Bottom: Freestyle Sprint Training Doug Frost: Freestyle Middle-Distance Training Dick Jochums: Freestyle Distance Training Eddie Reese: Backstroke and Butterfly Sprint Training Bill Rose: Backstroke and Butterfly 200-meter Training Jon Urbancheck: Breaststroke Training Dick Shoulberg: Individual Medley Training David Marsh: Relay Training Randy Reese: Power Training Don Gambril: Preparing to Excel in Competition This is, without question, the most prolific and authoritative group ever assembled in a single swimming book. The Swim Coaching Bible is a book that will be treasured for many years to come.
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SWIMMING DRILLS FOR EVERY STROKE by: RUBEN GUZMAN
Competitive swimmers know that even a minor flaw in stroke technique can mean the difference between first and last place in a race. Swimming Drills for Every Stroke gives any swimmer the competitive edge by teaching perfect form for the backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and butterfly. Unique in its focus on improving swimmers` form in the water, Swimming Drills for Every Stroke is the perfect handbook for swimming coaches, parents, and swimmers at all developmental levels. This training guide provides the essential drills for all four strokes as well as for starts and turns. Accompanied by helpful coaching tips and focus points, these 91 drills enable swimmers to develop more efficient technique for faster times in every event. The drills show you first how to master the fundamentals, then how to refine each stroke. Swimming Drills for Every Stroke divides each of the drills into four simple steps: 1. Explanation. The method for performing the drill is described in detail. 2. Demonstration. Precise, sequenced illustrations of each drill are included, so you see the proper form and can roughly duplicate it. 3. Correction. Little by little, you rid your form of imperfections. 4. Repetition. Repeating the drill until it becomes second nature enables you to bring your new form from the practice setting to the race. By following these simple steps, swimmers can master the drills that will help them race to the top of their competitive ranks.
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SWIMMING PAST 50 by: GOLDSTEIN
Swimming is a sport especially well-suited for older adults. But most books cater to younger, competitive high school and college swimmers and their coaches. Swimming Past 50 offers age-appropriate fitness and competition training programs as well as many valuable insights for swimmers who have lapped the 50-year mark. Swimming is increasingly popular among this growing age group as it is an ideal sport for developing cardiovascular fitness while putting little or no wear and tear on bones and joints. This book provides special insights and recommendations for mature swimmers. Whether you swim to stay in shape or compete as a Masters swimmer, you`ll find the material useful and accurate. Authors Mel Goldstein and Dave Tanner know their subject matter well. Both swam at Indiana University under the tutelage of legendary coach James "Doc" Counsilman. Goldstein went on to coach Masters swimmers and to swim competitively, and he currently ranks among the top ten nationally in the 60 to 64 age group. Tanner is a world champion and All-American swimmer and also competes in a variety of endurance sports. As an exercise physiologist and high school swim coach, he has studied training methods and schedules for fitness and performance in swimming. Whether you want to be a more efficient and fit lap swimmer or a faster competitor in the next Masters competition you enter, Swimming Past 50 is your guide to success. Training methods, stroke technique instructions, and drills are accompanied by important age considerations. The book also provides dryland and in-pool training programs for different levels of age 50 and over swimmers. As a special bonus, the authors have included sample workout schedules for the entire year. Age was always a poor excuse not to swim. Now Swimming Past 50 shows there`s no excuse at all, so jump right in.
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SWIMMING: STEPS TO SUCCESS - 3RD EDITION by: DAVID THOMAS
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 Sports 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.
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TEACHING INFANT AND PRESCHOOL AQUATICS by: AUSTSWIM, INC.
Get infants and toddlers off to a great aquatic start! Australia has long been recognized as one of the world leaders in swimming and aquatic education. Through a new series of books by AUSTSWIM, instructors around the world can now incorporate new and better ways to teach aquatics. Teaching Infant and Preschool Aquatics provides important guidelines for introducing infants and toddlers to water safely and effectively. Aquatic education experts describe children’s motor, cognitive, and emotional development during six stages, from newborn to preschool, and how the stages relate to aquatic activity. They also coach you on how to structure lessons and activities based on the stages of development. With this easy-to-use manual, you will learn • effective ways to familiarize children with water, • important infant health and water safety considerations, • the role of teachers and parents in early aquatic experiences, and • how to encourage a child’s natural curiosity and playfulness to develop important aquatic skills. Teaching Infant and Preschool Aquatics gives you all the tools you need to provide infants and preschoolers with enjoyable aquatic experiences so they can learn at their own pace, gain confidence, and build valuable water skills to use for a lifetime.
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