The Parents' Guide to Swimming
A manual for the mental, physical, and practical aspects of competitive swimming.
The 100 Best Swimming Drills
Drills for all four strokes with pictures, drawings, and step-by-step instructions on how to do each one correctly.
Mastering Swimming
Jim Montgomery and Mo Chambers authored this excellent guide for masters swimmers.
Dara Torres' Gold Medal Fitness: A Revolutionary 5-Week Program
In Gold Medal Fitness you'll find Dara Torres's tips for getting back into the game and staying in shape for many years to come. Her unique combination of stretching and strengthening exercises both tone and elongate your muscles, leaving you with that perfectly sculpted and slender shape.
Golden Girl: Natalie Coughlin
This story of professional swimmer and 2004 Olympic gold medalist Natalie Coughlin personalizes an athlete's strife on her way to the top, her fight against those predicting her fall and her internal struggles against illness, injury and the pressures of the sport.
Fitness Swimming
This book on swimming is a great resource for a swimmer with a little lap swimming experience that needs more direction, or a lap swimmer with a lot of swimming experience that wants to try some new ideas.
Swimming - Steps to Success
This comprehensive guide provides progressive instruction to help you master several swimming strokes and skills: backstroke, front crawl, breaststroke, butterfly, sidestroke, back crawl, trudgen, floating, diving, sculling, and underwater swimming. Step-by-step instruction and 195 illustrations break down each stroke to the basic arm and leg movements and their timing.
Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming
The Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming examines the sport of swimming since its inception as a competitive athletic event. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and appendixes that detail Olympic and World Championships medal winners.
Swimming for Total Fitness
Workouts and more to help the adult swimmer get stronger, faster, and better in the water.
