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Swimming Anatomy |  | Author: Ian McLeod
Brand: Human Kinetics
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Original
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0736075712
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.21
EAN: 9780736075718
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Product 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. Youll 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, youll 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.
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Swimming Anatomy Review November 18, 2009
Swimmer (Tempe AZ)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is a gem for swimmers, coaches, and parents. The illustrations and descriptions are well done and easy to understand. The exercises can be done by swimmers at all levels, from age groupers through masters. A great introduction to dry land training.
Great illustrations! November 10, 2009
Chad Hoffman
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Flat out the best book on swimming you'll find. The illustrations are attractive and cover exercises to improve freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, and backstroke. It's great for coaches and swimmers alike.
Must have for coaches, trainers, and swimmers! March 17, 2010
John A Barnes (Tennessee)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Ok swim coaches, go ahead and buy this book. The description of the exercises is good, the anatomical diagrams of the muscles worked in each exercise, and how it relates to swimming is worth every dime this book costs.
I've read weight lifting books for swimmers, and they are usually generic in content, or they are written by coaches who don't explain the "why's".
I've got a former swimmer who consults this book before every session in the gym; her personal trainer saw the book and ordered one for his center. Use the "Look Inside" feature here on Amazon, and the content will impress you.
Coaches should coach, and by that they should be able to explain the "why's" of what they want the kids to do, too many coaches abdicate that role of teacher. If you get the athlete to buy into what they are doing and why they are doing it, they have longer term success. This book will help take a step towards that goal of being a better coach.
Great strength and conditioning and/or rehabilitation resource for swimmers January 3, 2010
Kelli Pugh (Charlottesville, VA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ian McLeod's "Swimming Anatomy" provides a comprehensive guide to dry-land and weight room exercises which will benefit swimmers of all ages. This book is a user-friendly resource for swimmers looking to increase their strength, power, and speed. It will also be helpful for anyone who helps train swimming athletes - swim coaches, strength coaches, athletic trainers or physical therapists. Broken down by body part, "Swimming Anatomy" describes each exercise in step-by-step, easy to understand instructions. Readers will learn which exercises are important for developing each stroke and/or starts and turns. Drawing on his background as an experienced athletic trainer working with world class and Olympic swimmers, McLeod provides important information on injury prevention and exercise modification for injured swimmers. He also describes exercise progression for swimmers of all ages.
Packs in color exercises and drills perfect for swimmers January 16, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ian McLeod's SWIMMING ANATOMY packs in color exercises and drills perfect for swimmers seeking to strengthen their performance. Over seventy of the most effective swimming exercises are illustrated in color and offer insights into competition with illustrations of active muscles for starts, turns and the four competitive strokes.
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