- ISBN13: 9780736074575
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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 yo… More >>
Fitness Swimming, Second Edition
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I learned quite a bit, but I think it’s too focused on workouts rather than teaching. Not bad though, just not the greatest.
Rating: 3 / 5
Very instructional book. More suitable for competitive swimmer, I think. Contains sets of practise drills for beginner (green zone) to competition (red zone). I only followed up until green zone and have not progressed further. You need to copy down the drill sets on a slate and record your heart beat, time and stroke count. I did that until some misunderstood kid took my instruction slate on the pool edge, thinking somebody left it. I got it back with scribbles all over and I just gave up after that. A bit troublesome, definitely not for leisure swimming.
Rating: 3 / 5
There are too few illustration, but too many numbers, acronyms, notations, tables… There is not much to read in the book, but it surely presents a lot of tables for readers to check and fill. It talks about front crawl only. I am extremely disappointed because it does not tell me much about how to swim efficiently with correct strokes.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am a semi novice swimmer, I found very important information on this book, and for the contents I think it has a lot of interesting info for advance swimmer. I would hightly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I decided to start swimming as my sole fitness exercise. I swam as a kid and was certified as a lifeguard, but had never really learned the strokes as well as those swimmers I have seen swimming for clubs. As usual, I wanted to learn as much as possible before I started working out. So, I bought at least 20 books on swimming. Then I dived into the books. I noticed that after a couple of weeks of reading, I was always coming back to one book, Coach Hines’ Fitness Swimming. I now have 2 copies of this book. One is a backup.
The book is well organized and provides a wealth of information paced just right. It was nice that it started off providing the basics for people like me who have never participated in swimming for fitness/sport. Knowing that it describes more advanced drills/levels means I can use it as I improve. Additionally, it provides very clear instructions on each of the drills. Combined with numerous superb illustrations I found it very easy to understand what the proper drill/swim should look/feel like. I thoroughly love the focus points (red dot, buoy pressure, side skating, etc.). They provide good guideposts during a drill and reinforce proper execution. It’s like having a coach in your head while you swim.
I was somewhat worried before I started reading any of the books about the best way to combine the myriad drills. So, this book, by breaking the drills down into levels within a workout schedule, provides a great structure.
Great book Coach Hines!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. I’m looking forward to your books on backstroke, breaststroke, and fly (if possible).
-Dave Hallman
Rating: 5 / 5