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 enlarge | Author: Terry Laughlin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0743253434
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.21
EAN: 9780743253437
ASIN: 0743253434
Publication Date: June 21, 2004
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 This is the most valuable "training" book I have ever read.... July 16, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I learnt to swim at school and was fairly proficient, swimming often when I was younger. I'm now a 40 something who recently started swimming again to get fitter. I had been happily "windmilling" up and down the swimming pool but I decided to look on Amazon to see if there was a book that could improve what I was doing. I read the reviews on ths book and deciced to get it partly because one reviewer "complained" about it only teaching one stroke.
This book is fantastic. I wasn't taught this stuff at school. If you are serious about improving the efficiency of your swimming, this is it. Persevere with the repetition - it's there for a reason. Do the drills until you are bored. Then test run your new stroke. No splashes. Gliding along. People complimenting you on your "seal-like" swimming. Check out the free videos on totalimmersion.net (the freestyle vids).
simply wonderful July 5, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book works, at every level. Best of all, it takes the struggle out of swimming, and you get better and better simply because you become curious about moving in the water.
To begin with, it seemed a bit repetitive - and it is - but that turns out to be good: it gets key priorities floating into your mind without too much work on your part. And then, in the pool, at first you remember a bit, and you try a bit of what you remember - and the results are amazing. I used to be breathless after a length or so: but within a week I was taking ten lengths or more in my stride, and had plenty of energy still for at least another ten.
Then you turn back to the book again, and start to notice details you'd skimmed over or missed out on first time round. The pages on kicking aren't many, but they were enough to explain how I was putting in loads of pointless needless effort, and to show me how I could begin to sort out what use I can make of my legs. And so on.
The great thing is that it keeps you thinking, and thinking productively, while you swim. And so, swimming those lengths, up and down, up and down, isn't any longer monotonous, or boring, and certainly not stressful. You have something to think about, and - even better - you find it's thinking that pays off, quite quickly, and the effort soon gets less and less. Then comes a day when someone who looks a lot fitter and younger tells you "you're good", and you're amazed, (well, I certainly was) and it's only then you realise it's because you're not the one who's clutching at the rail, and heaving and puffing and gasping. You're the one who's been getting all that free and easy enjoyment just moving along through the water. Wow!
Why did nobody tell me before now about this wonderful book? It can't only be because it takes away the pain and makes everyday swimming into something that's entirely pleasure? because it makes what used seem difficult into something uncomplicatedly calm and happy? What it's shown me - and it's still teaching me - is there's no need to be an athlete to have a good time going swimming.
Brilliant March 20, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book starts at floating and ends with flying. Improving a swimmer's hydrodynamics as well as reducing his non-core muscle exertion gives a simple effect; faster, easier and much more enjoyable swimming.
If you don't mind working the answers out for yourself this book is for you. The DVD is available from the website (...)but I've not needed it yet. After a day of swimming, only having read up to the first four drills, I was told by a fellow swimmer that my front crawl was excellent. She asked how long had it taken me to perfect it... "Well I only really started yesterday" I replied. The best part was, she thought I was joking!!!
 From landlubber to waterbabe March 14, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have always swam to try and keep fit but could only ever manage about 5 lengths of front crawl before running out of breath and strength and resorting to the more sedate breaststroke. This book was the turning point for me. I'm now up to 2km front crawl; it is so much easier and enjoyable.
The book itself could be a third of the size: yes it helps to understand the theory but it does tend to cover the same ground over and over again. However if you want to improve your front crawl; read, digest and practice the principles in this book and you will soon be zipping up and down like a fish!
Better than taking a course on crawl February 6, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
My wife laughed when I said I'd bought a book about how to swim. But the results are quite amazing.
Before I started with it, I could swim breaststroke quite well, and had taken two courses at the local pool on how to do crawl. But my crawl stroke was still a mess and I was always gasping for breath after a single length. Within 10 sessions using the book I can swim 3 lengths in a row without a problem. More importantly, my stroke is completely different - more balanced, much easier, less tiring.
Of course, you can't just read the theory and start swimming differently. You have to do the exercises! I found them very straightforward to follow. You do look a bit silly doing the first few, but because the theory is explained, you already know it's going to be worth it.
P.S. Although the book is only about front crawl I found my breaststroke improved too, because of better balance.
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