Swimming list 7

Learn to Swim

Teaching You to Teach Your Child to Swim

by Benjamin Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013

Benjamin Roberts is an experienced Swimming instructor, School Teacher and Lifeguard who has combined his first class knowledge of teaching beginners to swim with his professional understanding of how children learn in order to write this book which will help parents, step parents, grand parents and...

Swim Better, Swim Faster

by Paul Mason
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014

Author Paul Mason had worked with swimmers of most levels, ranging from national champions to untrained enthusiasts who couldn't understand why they couldn't go any faster. There are lots of swimmers out there who would like to improve, but don't really know how to progress from splashing up and down...

The Swim Coaching Bible Volume II

by Dick L. Hannula, Nort Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012

For more than a decade, top coaches have turned to one resource time and time again. Collecting the wisdom, insights, and advice from the sport’s legendary instructors, The Swim Coaching Bible immediately established its place in the libraries of swim coaches around the globe. Coaches, it’s...

Come Swim With Me

A Parent's Guide to Teaching Their Children to Swim

by Lee Rosenmiller, Carol Stone
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

Want to teach your children to swim? Then this book is for you! Why, you ask? Well, like any sport, swimming is just a matter of putting together a set of skills. Come Swim With Me, written by Lee Rosenmiller and her oldest daughter, Carol Stone, is your guide on how to teach those...

How to Lose Weight Swimming

by Pedro Hugo García Peláez
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Water is essential for life, in this book you can discover the process of resonance between two systems, the water and the human body.You can Lose weight and lose fat.Your skin will look better.Did you know that swim 5 or 10 minutes a day ? you can get rid of your stomach fat...

Splash

by Andrew Michael Jackson, Andrea Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Splash, by Andrew Michael Jackson, WSI and Andrea Siegel, PhD.: What makes this book different from other swimming books? We believe that the most important thing to do is to help your child overcome fear of the water. We emphasize safety. Everything's been tested. Our method is straightforward...

Get in the Water

by Mr Robert Hans Boder
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018

Robert Boder's Get in the water is a book of innovative methods to educate coaches, athletes and parent in basic skills of competitive swimming. It is a starting point to understand many important aspects of the sport: - learning to do the strokes for speed and injury prevention - proper physical...

Waterman

The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku

by David Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of Waikiki to become America’s...

Dip

Wild Swims from the Borderlands

by Andrew Fusek Peters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

In Dip, Andrew Fusek Peters describes an extraordinary year of wild swimming. He leads us to rivers, lakes, waterfalls and hidden pools, into untamed landscapes that have the potential to surprise and move us in unexpected ways. Following in the wake of great writers such as Richard Jefferies and...

South with the Sun

Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery

by Lynne Cox
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011

Roald Amundsen, “the last of the Vikings,” left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most successful polar explorers ever. A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen’s career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant...

Making Waves

My Journey to Winning Olympic Gold and Defeating the East German Doping Program

by Shirley Babashoff, Chris Epting, Mark Spitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records. Prior to the 1990s, she was the most successful U.S. female Olympian and, in her prime, was widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer in the world.Heading into the 1976 Olympic...

Going For Gold

Welsh Olympic Dreams for 2012

by Lynn Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012

What does it take to be the greatest? Whether it's part of a team like cyclist Geraint Thomas, who won gold in the team pursuit event in Beijing 2008, or notching up a record-beating 11 gold medals in the swimming pool for paralympic swimmer David Roberts to equal the record set by Dame Tanni Grey...

Challenge Workouts for Advanced Swimmers

by Blythe Lucero
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010

The third book in the series, Challenge Workouts for Advanced Swimmers, contains 100 advanced level workouts that focus on speed and yardage, with specific workouts for freestyle, individual medley, sprint and distance swimming. The workouts in this book use pace work, descending and building sets, and...

How to Swim

by Miriam Paul
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013

Swimming can look intimidating if you've never learned how to do it, but it's possible for just about anyone to do it. Here's how to get started. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.