Swimming for Total Fitness: A Complete Program for Swimming Stronger, Faster, and Better

swimming Is One Of The Best, Most Enjoyable, And Most Effective Forms Of Exercise Available, And This Is The Classic Guide For Beginners And Expert Swimmers Alike, Completely Revised And Updated For The '90s. b & W Line Drawings Throughout. library Journal katz, An Accomplished Swimmer And Educator, Offers This Update Of Her 1981 Book Of The Same Title ( Lj 3/15/81). She Presents A Graduated Program To Learning The Basics Of Swimming, Beginning With Lessons For Novice, Intermediate, And Advanced Swimmers And Progressing To Demanding Super Workouts For The Competitive Swimmer. Within Each Level Are Ten Detailed Sublevels, Plus Variations, Warm-ups And Cool-downs, Advice On Physical Problems, Equipment, Racing, And Fitness. The Treatment Is Comprehensive, Clear, And Detailed, Though It Could Have Benefited From More Illustrations Or Photographs. Katz's Book Offers Better Coverage Than Marianne Brems's Swim For Fitness (chronicle, 1979), Or Katherine Vaz And Chip Zempel's Swim Swim: A Complete Handbook For Fitness Swimmers ( Lj 5/1/86). This Is Essential For All Public And Academic Library Sports Collections.-- Sandra Math, St. John's Univ. Lib., New York A progressive program for those who want to learn to swim, as well as for swimmers at every level. Katz explains how to swim in detail and offers drills to improve stroke techniques, tops on improving starts and turns, and a series of progressive workouts designed to increase the athlete's strength and stamina. Line drawings throughout Swimming is one of the best, most enjoyable, and most effective forms of exercise available, and this is the classic guide for beginners and expert swimmers alike, completely revised and updated for the '90s. B & W line drawings throughout. From the Trade Paperback edition. This is the only swimming book you'll ever need. If you don't know how to swim, this book will teach you. If you already swim, this book will show you how to sharpen your strokes (and learn new ones) and how to begin your own swimming program. Workouts and a progressive swim-for-fitness program accompany hydrocalisthenics, dry-land exercises, information on swimsuits, and advanced swimming techniques All good swimming begins with a firm grasp of the basic water skills.