Strength Training for Faster Swimming

Rarely does a book meet all my expectations to the extent this one does. Very informative and well presented, with helpful pictures and diagrams. Enough substance to cover the subject more than adequately, but not so elaborate that you think you are reading a scientific dissertation.

Well thought out and informative book. Explains why the training methods work and are appropriate to the stroke. Good buy.

I bought this book to do some more swimming specific training and it does have some good workouts for each level of progress/age. The pictures of exercises are clear and the descriptions are fine (look out for the typo where a comment from someone reviewing the book before printing asked for a better explanation and the comment was left in by mistake). I'm a 32yr old male with decent swimming experience, and about 60% of this book doesn't interest me, but I can see the benefits of using it for advising younger swimminers in the future.

Have used this for four weeks and my 400m time has come down by 30 seconds!

excellent, as described and delivered quickly.

Bought for my son,very useful information

Ok

It provides insight to all swimmers, not just the Olympians, that need to progress - it helped me a great deal!

I bought this book because I was interested in learning more about swimming, strokes and techniques, and training. I am a retired senior with no previous experience or training as a competitive swimmer. That pretty much means that I have no coach to guide and assist me, and keep me from over-training and injuring myself. I am not particularly interested in competition, but I still wanted to be a better athlete, and improve my health. I found the exercises in the book informative and focused on the different aspects of enhancing my swimming skill level, and my ability to function at my peak of conditioning. With this book and another, I was able to plan a series of training programs for a 1-2 hour workout on a daily or alternating days that fulfilled my needs to exercise to tolerance and ability, increase my stamina and endurance, and control health issues I have developed in later life. Overall, I recommend this book as a guide for the senior desiring to maintain their physical abilities or even to increase their physical stamina.

Happy withthe book.

Doesn't lay out a dry land program. Merely rehashes exercises that can be found in any article on the subject. Save your money.

It is very good book helping to improve your swimming skills. Is there anything else one should add? In my opinion no.

as advertised