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Complete Conditioning for Swimming | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dave, Ph.d. Salo, Scott, Ph.d. Riewald
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 15720
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/DVD
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 073607242X
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.21
EAN: 9780736072427
ASIN: 073607242X
Publication Date: June 30, 2008
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Product Description
From more powerful strokes to quicker turns, propel yourself to improved times with Complete Conditioning for Swimming. This multidimensional training program uses fitness assessments to tailor strength, endurance, and flexibility exercises to each swimmer's individual needs. Dave Salo, coach of Olympic medalists Lenny Krayzelburg, Aaron Peirsol, Amanda Beard, and Jason Lezak, and Scott A. Riewald, performance specialist for the U.S. Olympic Committee, have teamed up to create a comprehensive program that provides you with the following tools to improve your times: - Exercises and drills for each stroke
- Event-based workouts and programs
- Dryland training
- Tapering for peak performance
- Year-round conditioning plans
- Nutrition before, during, and after swim meets
In addition, the 80-minute DVD takes you to the pool and into the gym to demonstrate the drills and exercises used by the sport's elite. Complete Conditioning for Swimming is simply the best guide to preparing your body for competitive success.
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Excelent guide October 13, 2008
I'm a masters swimmer inspired by Dara Torres. This book provides a smart and thorough approach to swim conditioning. It helps you to identify weak areas and includes great exercises (for in and out of the pool).
 Good reference guide October 3, 2008
Good reference for serious swimmers that are looking for comprehensive information on every aspect of the sport. Easy to read and well orgainzed. Highly recommended. Inclusions of more examples of how the author trains the elite athletes and illustrations of his methods in specific programs will make the book even better.
If you want to try using strength training to get faster this is the book September 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am really enjoying this book. Very clear explanations and the included DVD shows many exercises performed so nothing is ambiguous. I like that they included exercises in different categories including warm ups, core strengthening, stroke specific and stretches.
He explains about the different energy systems and amazingly I can understand it!!
It is a pleasure to read and I know that I will be referring to it for many years to come. Some of the exercises I knew of and have been doing for a few months but another thing that I like about this book is that it shows intermediate and advanced forms of many of the exercises which I never knew about.
A Must Have in Swimmer's Library August 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not everyone of us has a chance in life to be coached under world-classes coaches that these authors are (watching the Olympics, I wondered what my swimming times would have been like have I been coached by Bob Bowman). But this book gives you a chance to get inside their minds and start doing what they do with their swimmers.
NOTE, this is not the book that will teach you anything about stroke technique. Rather, it'll teach you everything else you need to know besides that - how to exercise properly, how to properly stretch, how to warm up and cool down before races, how and when to eat, AND, what I liked the most, how to build a year round training program to help you peak in your swimming times at the right time of the year.
The book is very well written (took me just a day to read through it all), comes with a DVD that will show you all the important moves for your workouts, and overall - perhaps the greatest value for $15 you will find in any swimming product out there.
I recommended it to all my masters swimming teammates.
Gold Medal advice - Transform yourself like Michael Phelps did! August 15, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
You saw how Olympian Michael Phelps transformed his body and improved his performance after conditioning became a new focus of his training after the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This book authored by Dave Salo (coach to Olympic medalists Aaron Peirsol, Jason Lezak, Lenny Krayzelburg, and Amanda Beard) will help improve your performance and times.
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