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Overachiever's Diary by Louis Tharp with Laurie Ferguson, Ph.D.

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 being swimmers.

The Swim Coaching Bible

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.

Fitness Swimming by Emmett Hines (Second Edition)

This swimming 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).