Author: Mark YoungPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957003156
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
"Everything you need to know from first entering the water, to performing the four basic swimming strokes."
Complete Guide to Primary Swimming
Author: John LawtonPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1450401538
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
'Complete Guide to Primary Swimming' is designed to support school teachers with limited knowledge and experience of teaching swimming deliver the swimming component of the National Curriculum for key stages 1 and 2.
The Complete Beginners Guide To Swimming
Author: Mark YoungPublisher: Educate and Learn Publishing
ISBN: 0995484201
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
As a beginner learning how to swim you face many, often scary unknowns. From first entering the water, to lifting your feet up off the bottom, submerging your face and learning to breathe. From conquering your fears right through to learning what each part of your body should be doing when swimming the four basic strokes, The Complete Beginners Guide To Swimming contains everything you could possibly need. Contents: The Benefits of Swimming Fear of Swimming Swimming Science Buoyancy Aids Entering The Pool Learning To Go Underwater Standing Up Mid Swim How To Float How To Relax In The Water How To Glide Through The Water How And When To Breathe Basic Floating Exercises Front Crawl Backstroke Breaststroke Butterfly Inside you will find ‘real questions’ from real beginners learning how to swim. Questions like ‘why do my legs sink?”, “why do I get water up my nose?” and ‘why do I get so tired?”. Each one with a detailed and personal answer from the author.
The Complete Guide to Simple Swimming
Author: Mark YoungPublisher: Educate and Learn Publishing
ISBN: 0956489893
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
From terrified to terrific, ‘Simple Swimming’ is the book to help boost swimming ability. For the complete beginner, this book helps the terrified to understand and appreciate the water and for the established swimmer to adjust and correct the four basic swimming strokes. The 82 fully illustrated exercises contained in this book can help any beginner to learn and practice, and any swimmer to eliminate bad habits and fine tune their swimming. Mark Young is a well established swimming instructor with over twenty years experience of teaching thousands of adults and children to swim. He has taken nervous, frightened children and adults with a fear of water and made them happy and confident swimmers. He has also turned many of average ability into advanced swimmers. This book draws on his experiences and countless successes to put together this simplistic methodical approach to swimming.
The Swimming Strokes Book
Author: Mark YoungPublisher: Educate and Learn Publishing
ISBN: 0992742811
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Learning how to swim can be a frustrating experience sometimes, especially for an adult. Kick with your legs, pull with your arms, breathe in, and breathe out and do it all at the right time. Before you know it you’ve got a hundred and one things to think about and do all at the same time or in the right sequence. The Swimming Strokes Book is designed to break each stroke down into its component parts, those parts being body position, legs, arms, breathing and timing and coordination. An exercise or series of exercises are then assigned to that part along with relevant teaching points and technique tips, to help focus only on that stroke part. Although it is not the same as having a swimming teacher with you to correct you, this book perfectly compliments lessons or helps to enhance your practice time in the pool. The 82 exercises form reference sections for each swimming stroke, complete with technique tips, teaching points and common mistakes for each individual exercise. Clear, concise and easy-to-follow.
Total Immersion
Author: Terry LaughlinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451688334
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Swim better—and enjoy every lap—with Total Immersion, a guide to improving your swimming from an expert with more than thirty years of experience in the water. Terry Laughlin, the world’s #1 authority on swimming success, has made his unique approach even easier for anyone to master. Whether you’re an accomplished swimmer or have always found swimming to be a struggle, Total Immersion will show you that it’s mindful fluid movement—not athletic ability—that will turn you into an efficient swimmer. This new edition of the bestselling Total Immersion features: -A thoughtfully choreographed series of skill drills—practiced in the mindful spirit of yoga—that can help anyone swim more enjoyably -A holistic approach to becoming one with the water and to developing a swimming style that’s always comfortable -Simple but thorough guidance on how to improve fitness and form -A complementary land-and-water program for achieving a strong and supple body at any age Based on more than thirty years of teaching, coaching, and research, Total Immersion has dramatically improved the physical and mental experience of swimming for thousands of people of all ages and abilities.
Author: James E. CounsilmanHow to Build a Natural Swimming Pool
Author: Wolfram KircherPublisher:
ISBN: 9780993389214
Category : Ecological landscape design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Natural swimming pools are the biggest news for gardeners since green roofs. The water is cleaned by aquatic plants instead of chlorine so it is gentle on the eyes and healthy for swimmers. These self-cleaning ecosystems are beautiful to look at and provide a valuable water source for dragonflies, honeybees and other beneficial insects. Wolfram Kircher has researched extensively into the low-nutrientdependent plants that are needed for the surrounds of natural swimming pools and the high-nutrient dependent plants that are required for the regeneration zone. In the book he demonstrates how to maintain the nutrient level in perfect balance to keep down the algae down and water sparkling. The authors have installed pools for decades and trialled different systems and plants to come up with the best possible designs.
Swim Smooth
Author: Paul NewsomePublisher: Fernhurst Books Limited
ISBN: 1119968054
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Transform your technique in the water and become a better swimmer with this remarkable new approach to freestyle swimming, suitable for all levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced, as well as swimming coaches. Aimed at both fitness and competitive swimmers, it explains what makes a successful stroke and how to develop your own swimming style. _x000D_The Swim Smooth approach, developed by consultants to the gold medal winning British Triathlon team, helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your stroke and provides drill and training tips to make the most of your time in the water. It accepts differences in individual swimmers and shows you how to understand the fundamentals of swimming to find a style that works for you. Technique, fitness training, racing skills and open water swimming are all covered, with photographs and 3D graphics helping you to put theory into practice. _x000D_Swim efficiently. Swim fast. Swim Smooth.
Swimming Anatomy
Author: Ian A. McLeodPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492583219
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
See how to achieve stronger starts, more explosive turns, and faster times! Swimming Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by increasing muscle strength and optimizing the efficiency of every stroke. Swimming Anatomy includes 74 of the most effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action. Swimming Anatomy goes beyond exercises by placing you on the starting block, in the water, and into the throes of competition. Illustrations of the active muscles for starts, turns, and the four competitive strokes (freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, and backstroke) show you how each exercise is fundamentally linked to swimming performance. You’ll also learn how exercises can be modified to target specific areas, improve your form in the water, and minimize common swimming injuries. Best of all, you’ll learn how to put it all together to develop a training program based on your individual needs and goals. Whether you are training for a 50-meter freestyle race or the open-water stage of a triathlon, Swimming Anatomy will ensure you enter the water prepared to achieve every performance goal.
