Books for Swimmers and Related Sports

Looking for a good book about swiming or to help you swim better? I recommend one of these books to give you ideas and insight on technique and training for novice to advanced swimmers. This list also includes some good gift ideas for the swimmer on your gift list.

The book is an edited collection of a season's emails between a swim coach and the triathlete-swimmers of the West Point Triathlon Team. It is not all just swim practice outlines, but gives enough of them to offer a general feel of what worked for the team. It is more than that. It is about how the coach gets the swimmers from just swimming to...

What is (or are) your favorite book related to swimming? A technique guide? A wrokout book? A book featuring swimming-related stories or swimming history? Share the titles and something about your favorite book or books with other swimmers.

This book is a great resource for a swimmer with a little lap swimming experience but needs more direction, or a lap swimmer with a lot of swimming experience that wants to try some new ideas (of course, that assumes that the ideas in the book are new to that swimmer).

The subtitle of this book is "How Natalie Coughlin Fought Back, Challenged Conventional Wisdom, And Became America's Swimming Champion" - and that is what the book is all about, but it has much, much more abut the Gold Medal winning swimmer's path to the 2004 Olympic Games.

Two Hall of Fame coaches, Dick Hannula and Nort Thornton, have assembled this anthology of swimming resources from some of the world's greatest swim coaches. The collection of articles in The Swim Coaching Bible are sorted into five sections, covering both the basics and the details of coaching a swim team and specific types of athletes.