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Swimming Anatomy |  | Author: Ian McLeod
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 17205
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Original
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0736075712
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.21
EAN: 9780736075718
ASIN: 0736075712
Publication Date: October 22, 2009
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Product Description
See how to achieve stronger starts, more explosive turns, and faster times! Swimming Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by increasing muscle strength and optimizing the efficiency of every stroke. Swimming Anatomy includes 74 of the most effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action. Swimming Anatomy goes beyond exercises by placing you on the starting block, in the water, and into the throes of competition. Illustrations of the active muscles for starts, turns, and the four competitive strokes (freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, and backstroke) show you how each exercise is fundamentally linked to swimming performance. You'll also learn how exercises can be modified to target specific areas, improve your form in the water, and minimize common swimming injuries. Best of all, you'll learn how to put it all together to develop a training program based on your individual needs and goals. Whether you are training for a 50-meter freestyle race or the open-water stage of a triathlon, Swimming Anatomy will ensure you enter the water prepared to achieve every performance goal.
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Must have for coaches, trainers, and swimmers! March 17, 2010
John A Barnes (Tennessee)
Ok swim coaches, go ahead and buy this book. The description of the exercises is good, the anatomical diagrams of the muscles worked in each exercise, and how it relates to swimming is worth every dime this book costs.
I've read weight lifting books for swimmers, and they are usually generic in content, or they are written by coaches who don't explain the "why's".
I've got a former swimmer who consults this book before every session in the gym; her personal trainer saw the book and ordered one for his center. Use the "Look Inside" feature here on Amazon, and the content will impress you.
Coaches should coach, and by that they should be able to explain the "why's" of what they want the kids to do, too many coaches abdicate that role of teacher. If you get the athlete to buy into what they are doing and why they are doing it, they have longer term success. This book will help take a step towards that goal of being a better coach.
Excellent Swimming Book February 21, 2010
Pete (Massachusetts)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book for fitness and competitive swimmers. It is well laid out covering each part of the body and different strokes/start & turns. The "variation" for most dryland exercise allows you to use tubes, weights or physioball - going to a "gym" or expensive equipment is optional.
This is a good book for the injury prone swimmer. The dryland exercises in the book will keep you swimming.
Packs in color exercises and drills perfect for swimmers January 16, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ian McLeod's SWIMMING ANATOMY packs in color exercises and drills perfect for swimmers seeking to strengthen their performance. Over seventy of the most effective swimming exercises are illustrated in color and offer insights into competition with illustrations of active muscles for starts, turns and the four competitive strokes.
Great strength and conditioning and/or rehabilitation resource for swimmers January 3, 2010
Kelli Pugh (Charlottesville, VA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ian McLeod's "Swimming Anatomy" provides a comprehensive guide to dry-land and weight room exercises which will benefit swimmers of all ages. This book is a user-friendly resource for swimmers looking to increase their strength, power, and speed. It will also be helpful for anyone who helps train swimming athletes - swim coaches, strength coaches, athletic trainers or physical therapists. Broken down by body part, "Swimming Anatomy" describes each exercise in step-by-step, easy to understand instructions. Readers will learn which exercises are important for developing each stroke and/or starts and turns. Drawing on his background as an experienced athletic trainer working with world class and Olympic swimmers, McLeod provides important information on injury prevention and exercise modification for injured swimmers. He also describes exercise progression for swimmers of all ages.
 Visually Describes the motion of the muscles December 27, 2009
Rondamarie B. Smith (Morton, WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is an answered prayer! I have been using a specific dryland program which I designed based on my knowledge of human anatomy, but could not find a resource to corroborate my ideas...until THIS WONDERFUL BOOK ARRIVED! Each muscle group has several exercises with a drawing of the portion of the muscular system which the exercise works, the exercises for this specific muscle group and some alternative ways of performing the exercises. Excellent resource. My only complaint is the binding should be spiral so I can lay the book out flat, or even fold it in half.
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