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 enlarge | Author: Terry Laughlin
Creator: John Delves
Publisher: Fireside
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 64578
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 286
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 068481885X
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.21
EAN: 9780684818856
ASIN: 068481885X
Publication Date: August 2, 1996
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| Customer Reviews:
 Better Swimmer July 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book will make you a better swimmer almost instantly after reading the first 100 pages. The content is easy to read and for almost all levels of swimmers.
it's about balance June 28, 2008
The proof is in the water. Balance and proper physics are the replacement for going anaerobic by flailing your arms and legs. Learning how much bouyancy you own and how to "lengthen your boat," will relax you. And you will reduce you stroke count early on. The text and diagrams are clear and motivating to novice through elite swimmers.
Total Immersion Swimming May 28, 2008
This book and the video, Freestyle Made Easy, improved my swimming greatly. The key concept is to shift your effort from overpowering the water to streamlining your profile in the water. I don't have any quantitative measures for the improvement it made in my swimming, but I would guess it increased my speed 100%, plus it made swimming much more enjoyable. I took up swimming as a substitute for jogging, and was getting a sore right shoulder from my crawl (rotator cuff?). The Total Immersion technique alleviated that. And I still haven't finished the book. I am just an ordinary swimmer, taking the regular red cross swimming lessons as a little kid. I never swam competitively or trained seriously, unless you count doing the lessons in this book. I am also closing in on 60 years of age, and am very glad to have discovered this book.
An amazing teaching/learning tool May 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really needed help with my swimming (freestyle/crawl); a guy at the pool who moved thru the water in a truly enviable way recommended it. I got it. I did the drills. I made the effort to understand the theory. I actually enjoy swimming now. I checked out a lot of books on swimming from my local libraries and none compare favorably to this one. The Total Immersion school of thought also surpassed everything I found in my online quest for info on how to improve my swimming.
Much faster because of this book... May 8, 2008
I'm still not through reading this book, mostly because I got impatient, wanting to try some of the techniques out.
I was a swimmer in high school 20 or so years ago, and figured I didn't need the help. Over 400m I was overaging a little under 8 minutes, but somehow there were always guys that were faster.
In trying some of the techniques in the book, my time is now just a little over 6 minutes. That over 20% improvement!! My swimming is more efficient, smoother and I'm not as tired when I get done.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.
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