How to improve at swimming
Title:
How to improve at swimming
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Provides step-by-step instructions for improving one's competitive swimming, covering rules and regulations, equipment, skills, drills, safety, becoming physically fit, and typical training and race days for a professional swimmer.
Other Title:
Swimming
Year Published:
2008
Series:
Physical Description:
48 p. : col. ill., col. ports. ; 29 cm.
Note:
Includes index.
Cover title.
Contents:
Know the sport, swimming venues -- Equipment -- The strokes warming up -- Front crawl -- Backstroke -- Breaststroke -- Basic butterfly -- Advanced butterfly -- Starts and turns, learning to dive -- Racing starts -- Racing turns -- Backstroke, starts and turns -- Be fit, stay fit, diet and fitness -- Race tactics & events -- Swimming in other sports -- Triathlon & water polo -- Safety water safety -- Lifesaving -- How the pros do it.
Know the sport -- Swimming pools -- Equipment -- The strokes -- Warming up -- Freestyle -- Backstroke -- Breaststroke -- Basic butterfly -- Advanced butterfly -- Starts and turns -- Learning to dive -- Racing starts -- Racing turns -- Backstroke starts and turns -- Be fit, stay fit -- Diet and fitness -- Race tactics & events -- Race tactics & events --Swimming in other sports -- Swimming in other sports -- Triathlon & water polo -- Safety -- Water safety -- Lifesaving -- How the pros do it.
ISBN:
9780778735700
9780778735922
Publisher:
St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub., c2008.
