Fitness Swimming

by Emmett Hines

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.

Genres: Fitness, Nonfiction, Sports, Reference

232 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 22, 1998

Reviews

[Sonja H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beginning

[zoe nicol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Emmett Hines does something few technical writers can do: write with humor, warmth, and convince the impatient to do the foundation work. The introductory chapters cover the basics of starting a swim program: equipment options and price, checking your health and fitness (not synonymous terms) using actual measures, and pool etiquette. The book then moves into some incredibly helpful static and dynamic balance drills, introduces front quadrant swimming, and then turns to some diverse training cycles. Hines explains how to read workouts--what a 5 x 100 FR @ 2 Rmax :03 means--and provides sample training programs. Each 3-week cycle program addresses different levels of fitness and different goals. If I could give new swimmers one book, this would be the one.

[Josh Readmore · Rating 5 out of 5]

I started swimming seriously 4 months ago. I've always loved to swim, but freestyle was always hard for me. This book offers great freestyle technique advice and doesn't assume any prior knowledge. It offers many drills, and lots of workouts from rank beginner to expert, and tips on how to plan your workouts. I'm pretty sure it's a good book when some of the extremely fast and experienced swimmers at my local pool start asking me questions!

[Neal Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very good book for a swimming coach. The language can be quite technical for a new swimmer. There are lots of drills and sessions that I hope to find useful. As with most things, the barrier to successfully implementing these lies with my own determination to go out and put this book into practice.

[Hildur · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has great tips on how to improve your swimming.
Every time I get into the mood to start swimming on a day to day basis I like to pick this one up at the library to get some ideas on how to do it right.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great to use with Total Immersion.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am fast learning... knowing how to swim and how to swim efficiently are two very different things!

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

I admit, I didn't read every word on every page, but I did read the first few chapters and can tell it's useful enough that I'm planning to buy it and use it in my training.

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[VoraciousReader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent for giving advice on swimming for fitness. My only gripe is that it seems to focus on freestyle.

[Wawan Setiawan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Splendid book for all level of swimmers, especially if you follow step by step and the workouts.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got a lot of helpful tips out of this book as I strive to improve my swimming.

[Whitaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really great book shows us how everything is great and worth to die for