- Paperback: 162 pages
- Publisher: The Lyons Press; New edition edition (10 Jan 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1558213864
- ISBN-13: 978-1558213869
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 13.7 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 957,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Provides advice to fitness and competetive swimmers, from basic stroke techniques to advanced training programs.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good practical guide for improving swimming,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Essential Swimmer (Paperback)
A nice, concise guide mainly aimed at improving your crawl, although it does touch on other strokes too. There are more detailed books on technique but this is probably all you really need to know without getting all academic about it.The author covers the crawl in some detail and it has definately improved my stroke. He also outlines training programs and drills to help you progress.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most useful book on swimming I have read!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Essential Swimmer (Paperback)
Finally a book that blends new and tried and true swimming principles together in a straight forward and usable fashion. I found the chapters on technique and training to be the best of any swimming book available. Chapters on flexability, strength training and goal setting have sent me on the path to hyper improvement. I made a strength training swim bench from the instructions that rivals $800 swim trainers.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent reference for the freestyle swimmer,
By Joanna - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Essential Swimmer (Paperback)
This book is a great tool for learning how to swim the freestyle, or just for pointers when you need to improve your technique. It provides drills for improving freestyle technique, and great tips on how to design swim workouts. The only problem I had with this book is that it does not devote any time at all to the other three strokes, as they are all compiled into one chapter which does not include any drills or pointers. The rest of the book, which includes tips on nutrition and stretching, is meant as a tool only for beginners. If you are new to swimming or don't have access to a coach, I highly recommend this book to improve your swimming technique.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Skillful, Exemplary,
By thattherepaul - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Essential Swimmer (Paperback)
The brevity of this effective, perfectly edited swimming manual is sweet indeed. Not one word too long, it will teach you to swim better than you ever have before, teaching you the fundamentals of freestyle, improving your freestyle, and then using a goal-oriented drill program, developing the four main strokes of swimming (freestyle, breastroke, backstroke, and butterfly). It touches on strength training and the brief nutrion chapter, which basically says, if you eat garbage (empty calories) insteady of health food (fruits and vegetables) is better than a lot of popular nutrition books I've read. Practical, resourceful, and knowledgeable, the books is truly like having a coach right there.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I really struggled until I found this book,
By Malik Coates - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Essential Swimmer (Paperback)
I wanted to learn how to swim better. I tried a few other books, worked hard, and got nowhere. I began to believe it was impossible to learn swimming from a book. Swimming books tend to be lists of little things which can make you swim better. These lists are addressed to people who already know how to swim and do not add up to instructions for a new swimmer.
Tarpinians book is different. It told me in a simple fashion what I needed to do, how to do it and why. Reading just a handful of pages from this book has been the single most effective thing I've done to improve my swimming. |
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