A MUST READ LOADED RESOURCE FOR MASTER SWIMMERS, TRIATHLETES, FITNESS SWIMMERS AND COACHES Swimming for the Mature Audience is a great resource for the above 18-year-old swimmer. This is a comprehensive guide for USMS Master Swimmers, USAT and new Triathletes, Open Water Swimmers (USA and Masters), Fitness Swimmers, and Coaches designed to help explain what works and why in the sport of swimming. It contains all the nuts and bolts of sound and effective practices that work! It is also an introduction for new athletes to the sport with all the knowledge needed to fit in immediately. Youll find insight into the sport, including how to modify and even build workouts that work for you designed to alleviate the learning curve and fear associated with anything new. A wealth experience, knowledge, and sound practices are contained in this easy-to-read resource guaranteed to help everyone.

Triathlon Swimming reveals the rewarding and rigorous Tower 26 program for mastering open-water swimming by the world’s leading open-water swimming coach Gerry Rodrigues and former pro triathlete Emma-Kate Lidbury.Triathlon swimming is unique in its challenges and physical and mental limits. Over his lifetime of over 100 open-water swim race wins and over 30 years of coaching, Rodrigues has perfected the art and science of open-water swimming. His famed Tower 26 swimming program trains athletes in both the pool and in rough open water conditions, making triathletes and swimmers skilled, confident, capable, and fast in any condition. In Triathlon Swimming, Rodrigues and Lidbury break down open-water swimming technique and show how triathlon swimming requires different form. From kicking to sighting, Triathlon Swimming describes the best technique for swimming in open water. This guide shares the best gear for open-water swimming, shows how to create your own effective open-water swim workouts, and shares a plan for race prep and taper. Tower 26 offers the best open-water swimming technique. With Rodrigues’ coaching approach and Lidbury’s first-hand experience and insight, Triathlon Swimming can help you become a master open-water swimmer for faster, fearless racing.

This waterproof book of 75 swim workouts provides the structure, variety, and drills triathletes need to become more efficient and faster swimmers. Each workout is designed around a specific goal--endurance, speed, form, muscular endurance, or anaerobic endurance.

Trim seconds off your time, train more efficiently, or simply maximize your fitness workouts with Mastering Swimming. Renowned coaches Jim Montgomery and Mo Chambers have teamed up to create the ultimate swimming guide for masters athletes. Swimmers aged 18 to 120 will benefit from a targeted approach that covers these essentials: -Stroke instruction and refinement for freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly -Workout plans for fitness and competition -Training for open-water swimming and triathlon -Second-saving starts and turns In addition, Mastering Swimming covers equipment, dryland training, motivational strategies, and guidance for selecting a masters coach or program. With such complete coverage, it's the one resource you'll turn to time and again for a lifetime of serious swimming.

Open Water Swimming: A Complete Guide for Swimmers and Triathletes is aimed at all levels of open water swimmer, from beginners right through to competing professionals. It covers all aspects of the sport: its history and health benefits; a thorough introduction to getting started; a full discussion on training equipment and how it should be used; the safety and legal aspects of choosing a suitable location for swimming; acclimatization for both the beginner and the experienced swimmer. The author then goes on to explain in detail all technical aspects of open water swimming; sighting; drafting; turning around buoys; entraces, exits and transitions. Topics covered include: the importance of nutrition - for training, competition and improving recovery - and injury prevention and rehab, including a programme for core stability and stretching. The only open water swimming guide to be written by a professional athlete and Olympian. Basic training programmes for Triathlon 750m and 1500m distances, Ironman events and 10km and channel swimming. Superbly illustrated with 75 colour photographs.

Lynne Cox has set open water swimming records across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience and expertise into this definitive guide to swimming. Open Water Swimming Manual provides a wealth of knowledge for all swimmers, from seasoned triathletes and expert swimmers to beginners exploring open water swimming for the first time. Cox methodically addresses what is needed to succeed at and enjoy open water swimming, including choosing the right bathing suit and sunscreen; surviving in dangerous weather conditions, currents, and waves; confronting various marine organisms; treating ailments, such as being stung or bitten, and much more. Cox calls upon Navy SEAL training materials and instructors’ knowledge of open water swimming and safety procedures to guide her research. In addition, first-hand anecdotes from SEAL specialists and stories of Cox’s own experiences serve as both warnings and proper practices to adopt. Open Water Swimming Manual is the first manual of its kind to make use of oceanography, marine biology, and to weave in stories about the successes and failures of other athletes, giving us a deeper, broader understanding of this exhilarating and fast growing sport.

Swim Like A Pro is the most comprehensive guide for swimmers looking to improve their performance and health!Fares Ksebati is one of the most trusted swim coaches in the world and has created a proven training program that has helped hundreds of thousands of swimmers improve their stroke technique and swim more efficiently.Swim Like A Pro uses a holistic approach to help you swim faster with less effort and with more enjoyment. If you're just getting started in your swimming journey, this couldn't be a better time to start! The resources in this book in this book and the online course will not only expose you to the fundamentals of technique training but also the world of strength and conditioning, nutrition, and injury prevention. Swim Like A Pro will offer you: - A Fresh Perspective On Swimming- A Deeper Understanding of Stroke Technique and Training- A Strategy to Set SMART Swimming Goals- A Holistic Approach To Swim Smarter: Nutrition, Dryland, and Mental Training- A Series of Inspiring StoriesAre you ready to swim faster and smarter than ever before? Take action towards your goals, and order Swim Like A Pro now!!ONLINE COURSE: Swim Like A Pro offers an online video course that includes swim drills, workouts, links to additional video content and an exclusive Q&A section that will grow over time. swimlikeapro.orgEvery chapter has a corresponding video(s) and section in the online course. You'll be able to see and hear my explanation for each concept and stroke technique in this book. Seeing a visual representation of each concept can make all the difference in how fast you make progress.The online course has bonus video sections, a swim workout template, and interviews with swimmers who have lost weight, completed Ironmans, and even won Olympic Medals! While the online video course is not required, it's highly encouraged.TESTIMONIALS: "As a former professional swimmer, I understand how important proper technique training is to reaching your goals. Swim Like A Pro makes swimming accessible to beginners while also helping seasoned athletes reach their full potential. The online video course helps you visualize the correct technique in order to swim faster with less effort." - Peter Vanderkaay, 3x Olympian, 4x Olympic Medalist "Fares translated his passion and enthusiasm for swimming into the user-friendly app that is MySwimPro. Whether you are looking to swim for fitness or train for the English Channel the holistic approach and vast library of dryland videos, technique tips, and workouts will help you accomplish your goal. Be ready to find a new love for swimming and the water!" - Catherine Breed, 4x Open Water Record Holder, 2x Pan American Gold Medalist "Swim Like A Pro is a MUST read for any triathlete looking to improve their swimming technique and training! Fares has helped thousands of swimmers and triathletes of all ages and abilities reach their full athletic potential. This book offers the perfect entry point for someone looking to take their swimming to the next level!" - Mitch Thrower, 23x Ironman, 11x Ironman World ChampionshipsABOUT THE AUTHOR: Fares Ksebati is an entrepreneur, swimmer, coach, and mentor, helping people turn their dreams into a reality. He has been featured by Apple, Forbes, Sports Illustrated and Men's Health. Fares is the Co-Founder of MySwimPro, World Swim Day, and multiple business ventures that have impacted millions of people around the world. Fares is an avid world traveler and keynote speaker. He is a Bosphorus Cross-continental swimmer, and three time U.S. Masters Swimming individual national champion. His goal is to inspire and empower others to take action on their dreams. He advocates for a growth mindset and continuous self-improvement! Follow Fares on social media @FaresKsebati.

Written by two former coaches for the U.S. National Swim Team, "Workouts in a Binder for Swimmers, Triathletes, and Coaches" extends beyond freestyle to include other strokes for masters and collegiate swimmers and coaches, as well as triathletes seeking skill-building in the off-season. The workout categories, which are more diverse than "Swim Workouts for Triathletes" (the previous book in this series), include distance, middle distance, sprint, individual medley, and stroke. Competitive swimmers and coaches can build a training plan using a variety of workouts from each category to improve speed and skills. Recreational swimmers, on the other hand, can realize new fitness levels by introducing greater variety to their swimming routines. Printed on large, durable cards, this new entry in the popular "Workouts in a Binder" series was specially designed for swimmers to use at the pool and can be easily read, even through foggy googles and flip-turn splashback.

A clear, practical guide to swimming freestyle better than you ever thought possible. Not only to swim well enough to breeze through a triathlon swim leg with ease and confidence; but to reach a Nirvana where the swim is your favorite part. If you're not aiming to do a triathlon, but would simply like to swim with ease, efficiency and confidence, TSME will turn you into a beautiful freestyler with the freedom to swim in any body of water.

Transform your technique in the water and become a better swimmer with this remarkable new approach to freestyle swimming, suitable for all levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced, as well as swimming coaches. Aimed at both fitness and competitive swimmers, it explains what makes a successful stroke and how to develop your own swimming style. _x000D_The Swim Smooth approach, developed by consultants to the gold medal winning British Triathlon team, helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your stroke and provides drill and training tips to make the most of your time in the water. It accepts differences in individual swimmers and shows you how to understand the fundamentals of swimming to find a style that works for you. Technique, fitness training, racing skills and open water swimming are all covered, with photographs and 3D graphics helping you to put theory into practice. _x000D_Swim efficiently. Swim fast. Swim Smooth.