Customer Reviews

The Swim Coaching Bible (The Coaching Bible Series)

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This is my first year as being head coach of the girl's swim team where I work and one of my co-workers bought this book for me and I loved it! Whether you're beginning your swim/diving coaching career, or you're an Olympic coach, this book comes it great handy! I learned a lot from this book, and at every meet, it's under my arm or right next to my split or heat sheets! I'd recommend it to any one who wants to coach, is a coach, or wants that extra edge!

I have coached for seven years and I found this book to be a good reminder of what I want to do, and a good start to improving on my faults. This book gives some good work out ideas, and planning, but the strongest section is how each coach should relate themselves to the kids. I found that alot of the ideas that are in the book can directly relate to so many of my kids. A must for new coaches, and a useful tool for us old heads who think we know everything.

A very good book, you can learn from the experiences of the top coaches in the world from this book! Each chapter is written by a world class swimming coach, this however, in my opinion, makes the book a little confusing for less experienced coaches, because although all coaches apply the same principles of training, each one presents them in a different way.

I'm halfway through the book and just about to start coaching. Although it is meant for more experienced coach up to the Olympic level, I find it useful. Lots of knowledge from levels of swimmers and their expectations, responsibilities of coaches in terms of psychology and facility management, and even technic explained in detail, coming from the experts. This book explained the differences between the 2 types of freestyle so clearly and I hope it will help me in sprint training.

Every Swim Coach needs this book. I am a head high school swim coach and I buy this book for all of my assistants. If there is one book to buy for coaching swimming it IS THIS ONE!!!

This book is great. Full of good advice and information. It truely is my bible; I refer to it often. I recommend it to any and all swim coaches.

This book is great it has enough information with examples to assist both the novice swimmer through to the gold level coach.

This book is great for anyone who works with kids in sports or education alike. The ideas are developmentally appropriate and versatile enough for anyone to utilize to create successful programs. A successful program builds successful kids who are confident and prepared to enter the world after sports, and/or to continue on for a lifetime of fitness. I highly recommend this book!

I use this book to coach my kids swimming.
It is a very detail book with lots of drills and explanation.
The reason I give it 4 stars is that if they can add some real photo for stroke anatomy, it would be great.

Gave this to our daughter-in-law for Christmas. She is a high school varsity swim coach and was so excited to get this. It was a very big hit!