The Ultimate Guide To Weight Training For Swimming [Paperback]

Rob Price (Author)

Book Description

Series: Ultimate Guide to Weight Training: Swimming | Publication Date: May 1, 2005

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 increase strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. Not long after you begin following this guide you will cut seconds off of all of your strokes. Swimmers of all skill levels will be able to finish without running out of gas and will be able to swim at record paces until the end of the meet.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Your book's programs have helped my swimmers reach their goals. The book identifies specific machines that work particularly well in the sport of swimming. The book has also given me a bunch of do's and don'ts and things the swimmers should think about. I have already noticed changes in the swimmers. Both with their physical development and also their stroke development. Also, times have dropped. I would like to thank you for a great book to help in the progression of swimming. It was very hard to find something like this that can relate specifically on swimming! Thank you --Jim C, High School Coach

About the Author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Price World Publishing; 2 edition (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932549390
• ISBN-13: 978-1932549393
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #33 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Swimming
  • #45 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Water Sports > Swimming

More About the Author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars weight training, February 25, 2009

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bklynmermaid (brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

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This product would be good for someone who did not know the basics about dryland, but for someone with a solid background in weight training, it offered nothing I did not already know. "Ultimate" is a misnomer, a better title would be "Basic Fundamentals of Weight Training". The approach was very old-school, I was looking for more updated training techniques. I found "Complete Conditioning for Swimming" by Dave Salo to be far superior.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guide to weightlifting for Swimmers, December 17, 2010

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Robert Hoven - See all my reviews

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My Daughter Loved this book, It has Helped her GREATLY.

THANK YOU

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1.0 out of 5 stars Do not waste your money., September 3, 2010

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kitabee - See all my reviews

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The book is a pathetic collection of cuts and pastes, very poor quality black and white pictures, and a bunch of pages filled with meaningless charts. Its a rip off.