Product Description

Want more from your workout? Whether you seek to improve your technique, trim your times, swim greater distances, or simply improve your fitness level, Fitness Swimming will help you achieve your goals, all in full-color.

Expert swim coach Emmett Hines has created 60 new workouts and 16 sample programs, each arranged into suggested training zones to correspond to your fitness level and performance goals. Over a dozen cutting-edge technique drills help you progressively build an effective freestyle stroke. The text covers stretching, warm-up and cool-down methods, heart rate zone targets, expanded instruction for stroke efficacy, progressive drills, conditioning tips, and fitness assessments. Fitness Swimming has all the information you need to chart progress and maintain peak performance.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59626 in Books
• Brand: Human Kinetics
• Published on: 2008-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .49" h x 7.14" w x 10.02" l, 1.24 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

Review
"Finally, someone has written a book about swimming that makes sense. Emmett's ability to explain swimming concepts in an understandable way is unparalleled. This book will open up the eyes of any fitness swimmer, from novice to ex-Olympian."
Troy Dalbey
Head Masters Coach, The Phoenix Swim Club
Double Gold Medalist, 1988 Olympics
Former World Record Holder
Fitness Swimming "is filled with sound, practical advice on how to swim faster and easier and is informed by Emmett Hines' elegant writing and wonderful, down-home sense of humor. A must read for serious masters and fitness swimmers."
Phillip Whitten, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, "Swimming World" and "SWIM"
Author, "The Complete Book of Swimming"
"A must read for any self-coached swimmer. The discussions of cardiovascular fitness and stroke technique combined with Coach Hines' rainbow' of workouts will almost guarantee improvement in swimming efficiency and fitness."
Mo Chambers
Head Coach, Mountain View Masters
United States Masters Swimming Coach of the Year (1996)
"Coach Emmett Hines has created an invaluable tool for improvement-minded swimmers." Fitness Swimming "is the first book I have seen that perfectly complements the" Total Immersion "book and method by providing sensible and friendly guidance on how to build fitness and stroke efficiency in a seamless combination."
Terry Laughlin
Director, Total Immersion Swimming
Author, "Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier"

Review

"Emmett Hines is an influential coach—a pioneer among masters swimming coaches. In Fitness Swimming he shares the very latest on swimming technique, and his no-nonsense approach to stroke analysis is refreshing. No swimming library would be complete without this book."

Bill Volckening
Editor, USMS Swimmer

"Emmett has done a great job of creating a resource for swimmers on the technique and conditioning fundamentals of the sport. No matter what level, the drills and workouts will help you become a better all-around swimmer."

Glenn Mills
U.S. Olympic Swimmer and Founder of GoSwim.tv

From the Publisher
"Emmett Hines is an influential coach--a pioneer among masters swimming coaches. In Fitness Swimming he shares the very latest on swimming technique, and his no-nonsense approach to stroke analysis is refreshing. No swimming library would be complete without this book."

Bill Volckening
Editor, USMS Swimmer