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Get Wet, Get Fit: The Complete Guide to Getting a Swimmer's Body

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This book is insightful and complete and while it may be a little redundant at times, I would rather see it too complete than lacking.

What I like most is that there are tips from quite a few of my favorite Olympians in there, and they include their own kind of sidebars with tips. Gary Hall Jr's are exceptional and collectively, I think those gems make the book worth the price all by themselves.

I've been a fan of Megan (Quann) Jendrick's since watching her dominate the 2000 Sydney Olympics. I'm not much into swimming myself as far as activity, but I definitely wanted to read her take on the sport and I was very interested in the nutrition, stretching and dry land training portions of this book. I must say, I was not let down!

For being two young people, the amount of knowledge these two present is immense. And compared to other books I checked out at the store, this one is set well apart from the pack by having actual underwater photography included instead of illustrations. This makes a WORLD of difference when trying to learn the included material.

I've only used the stretching for a few days, but I feel better following their advice after such a short period of time.

I can certainly say from even my outsider opinion that this book is going to help a lot of people. It's helpful to lose weight, feel more energetic from better eating, become stronger, and learn a lifesaving skill. I certainly wish this young lady a very blessed 2008 and hope to see her win gold in Beijing! For swimmers and non-swimmers alike, I say pick this up for sure.

This is the book that I think a lot of swim coaches are going to wish they had written. The Jendricks have written a book that is easily digestible by swimmers (aspiring and current), and particularly swim parents.

Megan and Nathan deftly cover a lot of ground, touching on what's *really* important. These topics range from stroke technique to proper diet, including nutritional supplements.

Speaking as a swim coach, this book is packed full of exactly the information that new swim parents should arm themselves with to compliment at home what their young swimmers are being taught on the pool deck at practice.

This book is sure to become an "instant classic" with those looking to educate themselves about the true "nuts and bolts" of the sport. I think an educated swim parent is a good swim parent, and as such, Megan and Nathan have done the entire swimming community a great service with this excellent tome.

Been following the program in the book. First off I am not a swimmer, but I am getting there. And I'm losing weight and feeling pretty good.

The stroke information in the book is excellent, as are the tips from Olympians and the nutrition guide, but where this book really misses the mark is in the workouts. The beginner workouts don't exactly provide a great transition to the intermediate workouts, and so on. For example, most of the beginner workouts do not have structured intervals, but the first intermediate workout assumes you can make a 1:25 base 100 in order to hold 150s on a 2:10 interval, but then in another workout says that a 1:35 with fins may be a hard sendoff. Not if you can hold a 1:25 base 100!

By the time you get to the advanced workouts, you've chopped another 25 seconds per 100 as there are sets that basically require you to hold a 1:00 base per 100 in order to make the sendoff, and that's if you can do it with no rest. If you can swim repeat 100s on 1:00, you're on par with elite-level swimmers in peak condition, and if you're not a competitive swimmer already, you need to be. The linking chain just isn't there between the beginner, intermediate, and advanced sets to promote the progression from one level to the next.

I have read a lot of books for triathletes--swimming, running, biking--and this is the most complete one that I have ever picked up. Very inclusive, very detailed. The pictures are really nice. Lots of information here. I was never much a swimmer, now I'm in the pack every race and feel like I am getting better still. Invaluable tool.

The written descriptions of strokes are hard to understand. There are not enough pictures to really show the strokes either. The diet tips are for someone, who, like Megan, is going to eat six meals a day, all high in protein, in order to support 3 hours of swimming and 1 hour of weight lifting everyday. If you're a regular type person, you can't spend that kind of time working out. If you want to be a big time swimmer, you will need much more complete info about strokes, turns, physiology, diet. Authors use terminology you're not likely to know unless you're already a serious swimmer to instruct the reader on beginner workouts. It's not clear to me what audience the authors mean to address.

First of all, the title is mis-leading. This book does not have much to do with fitness, or getting a Swimmer's Body. But it teaches basic swimming from the point of a Olympic gold medalist. There are some helpful tips, but this book is not deep. Still worth reading.

Haven't swam in 10 years and this book was just what I needed to get in and feeling good again

This book was really great for me. I got inspired to buy it from a clinic I attended that Megan Jendrick put on. She's phenominel in person and her book doesn't let down!

It's great because it's for the competitive swimmer as much as it is the rec swimmer, and even people who don't swim. The weight lifting stuff, the stretching, the nutrition - those three things alone, without even touching the pool, would lead someone to MUCH better health. Incredible buy!