Author: Robert G. Price
Publisher: Sportsworkout.com
Keywords: swimming, training, weight, guide, ultimate
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1932549390
ISBN-13: 9781932549393
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming is the most comprehensive and up-to-date swimming-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round swimming-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other swimming book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book was designed specially for swimmers to increas
Author: Ian McLeod
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: anatomy, swimming
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-10-22
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0736075712
ISBN-13: 9780736075718
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 fou
Author: Bob Shacochi
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: volcano, swimming
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2004-04-09
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802141315
ISBN-13: 9780802141316
Winner of the American Book Award for Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis returns to the setting of his first collection of stories with Swimming in the Volcano, a haunting and evocative novel possessed of the same beauty as the places and people of the Caribbean. Set on the fictional Caribbean island of St. Catherine, an American expatriate becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival factions of the government. Into this potentially explosive scene enters a woman once loved and lost, but who remains a powerful temptation-one that proves impossible to resist.
Author: Sarah Garland
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children’s Book
Keywords: swimming, going
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-07-28
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1845077229
ISBN-13: 9781845077228
In Going Swimming, Mum, her daughter, and the baby take a trip to the local pool. Young readers follow along as they negotiate the changing rooms, splash about in the water, and coax the reluctant baby to join them. When itâs time to go home, guess whoâs having too much fun to leave? Going to a public swimming pool for the first time can be a little bit scary, but this reassuring story, told from a childâs point of view, shows that it can be lots of fun, too.
Author: Nicola Keegan
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: swimming
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-07-14
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0307269973
ISBN-13: 9780307269973
“I loved Swimming. It’s the most original novel I’ve read all year. I can’t get Pip’s voice out of my mind. Give yourself a treat this summer—read this book.”—Judy BlumeA spectacular debut about the rise of an Olympic champion—a novel about competition, obsession, the hunger for victory, and a young girl with an unsinkable spirit struggling to stay afloat in the only way she can.When we first meet Pip, the extraordinary heroine of Nicola Keegan’s first novel, she is landlocked in a small town in the center of Kansas, literally swimming for her life. Pip is tall and flat and
Author: Andrew Willett
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Keywords: fun, swimming
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2003-01
List price: $26.65
ISBN-10: 0756504325
ISBN-13: 9780756504328
Describes the four racing strokes in the sport of swimming and presents information on the basic equipment, practice, coaching, and competition.
Author: Clive Gifford
Publisher: PowerKids Pre
Keywords: personal, swimming
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $25.25
ISBN-10: 1404244433
ISBN-13: 9781404244436
Everything you need to know to participate in -- and enjoy -- your favourite sport
