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Experts agree that swimming is the best and most complete form of excercise. Here is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to the sport.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
not highly technical but highly encouraging.,
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This review is from: The Complete Book of Swimming (Paperback)
a volume that preaches to the choir of masters (and would be) swimmers. discussions of benefits of swimming, weight loss, strokes, masters swimming & more. maybe the best starter book available for someone interested in getting started in swimming. not bed for those of us in it, but not as informative for stroke technique as other volumes. loses ponts on the one to ten scale due to lack of technical improvement information
37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Little about swimming, a lot about everything else,
By The Reader from California (California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Book of Swimming (Paperback)
Why are swim book authors so lousy? This one is worse than the Total Immersion book. More pages are devoted to topics around swimming than swimming itself. There are chapters on health, diet, etc. etc. That's not necessarily bad, but I'd rather have a smaller, more focused book just about swim technique. In addition, the author gets carried away with love of his sport, asserting that swimming will lead to a better sex life, longevity, wealth, world peace. Well, many fitness regimes will improve your health. Buy it used and keep your expectations low.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The complete book of the excitement of swimming,
By Lui (Köln) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Book of Swimming (Paperback)
This book is great for getting started. If your first thought is,"do I really wanna go all the way up to the pool, get in my swimming trunks and jump into the cold wet?", just open this book and you'll already be in the water. Dr. Whitten has so much enthusiasm for the sport, that he could probably even convince a cat to take up swimming. I bet there are better books for competitive swimmers, which have more complete work-outs or are more technical, but this book gives you a bit of everything and it also explains WHY you should take up swimming.
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IF EVERY TIME you take a short flight of stairs you find yourself huffing and puffing, think of Paul Bragg. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consistent breathing pattern, backstroke flip turn, dolphin breaststroke, swim videos, hereditable diseases, streamlined body position, breaststroke turn, waist minus wrist, yards workout, subtract two years, backstroke kick, dolphin kick, streamlined position, breaststroke kick, underwater pull, fitness swimmers, worst stroke, competitive strokes, pull buoy, arm recovery, free relay, arm cycle, fitness revolution, wrist measurement, pace clock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Lynda Myers, Nellie Brown, Paul Bragg, American Heart Association, English Channel, Fountain of Youth, Janet Evans, Mark Spitz, Matt Biondi, Summer Sanders, Arnie Spector, Barry Sears, Doc Counsilman, San Diego, The New England Journal of Medicine, Tom Lane, University of California, Walden Pond, Cecil Colwin, Judy Collins, Pablo Morales New!
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IF EVERY TIME you take a short flight of stairs you find yourself huffing and puffing, think of Paul Bragg. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consistent breathing pattern, backstroke flip turn, dolphin breaststroke, swim videos, hereditable diseases, streamlined body position, breaststroke turn, waist minus wrist, yards workout, subtract two years, backstroke kick, dolphin kick, streamlined position, breaststroke kick, underwater pull, fitness swimmers, worst stroke, competitive strokes, pull buoy, arm recovery, free relay, arm cycle, fitness revolution, wrist measurement, pace clock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Lynda Myers, Nellie Brown, Paul Bragg, American Heart Association, English Channel, Fountain of Youth, Janet Evans, Mark Spitz, Matt Biondi, Summer Sanders, Arnie Spector, Barry Sears, Doc Counsilman, San Diego, The New England Journal of Medicine, Tom Lane, University of California, Walden Pond, Cecil Colwin, Judy Collins, Pablo Morales New!
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- Swimming Through Your Pregnancy by Jane Katz on page 189, and Back Matter
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 24) by Francois Rabelais on page 135
- Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old by Deepak Chopra in Back Matter
- Walden Pond (NE Landmarks) by Bonnie McGrath on page 213
- Trust Your Heart by Judy Collins on page 6
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- Pregnancy Fitness: Mind Body Spirit (Health & Fitness) by Fitness Magazine in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Race for Life by Ruth E. Heidrich Ph.D. in Back Matter
- The Triathlete's Guide to Swim Training (Ultrafit Multisport Training Series) by Steve Tarpinian in Back Matter
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