Swim Speed Workouts for Swimmers and Triathletes: The Breakout Plan for Your Fastest Freestyle (Swim Speed Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1937715019 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 92 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommend I am a retired coach and was asked by my daughter to put together some training programs as she was competing in an 1.9 km open water swim. I started browsing the web and found these fully water proof training cards and thought Id try them a long with another set.My. dawn said LOVE THIS!. Great book. Very very helpful.Sheila is amazing.. Jennifer E Moore said Great drills and workouts to take your swim to a new level!. I have just finished the first six weeks of the workouts and they are really making a difference to my swimming. Each workout has a purpose and focuses on proper form, something the solo swimmer forgets to do one their own. I was a strong swimmer to begin with, but
Although only 5' 2", Taormina refined her exceptional freestyle swim technique to win a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics and the 2004 ITU triathlon world championship. Sheila Taormina is one of a handful of athletes who have competed in four Olympic games and the only woman in the world to have competed in three distinctly different sports--swimming, triathlon, and modern pentathlon. Taormina conducts dozens of sw
Swim Speed Workouts applies the principles of Taormina's influential swim technique book Swim Speed Secrets so swimmers and triathletes can get in the pool and get fast.Drawing from her 30-year racing and coaching career, Taormina's Swim Speed program is carefully designed to build freestyle swim speed one crucial step at a time. In Swim Speed Workouts, 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion Sheila Taormina provides the essential swimming instruction, workouts, drills, and training plan to build all-new levels of freestyle swimming speed. Over 16 weeks, swimmers and triathletes will swim high-impact workouts to build whole-body swimming fitness. Each waterproof swim workout card incorporates the Olympic swimming drills, kick sets, and drylands that develop speed in the world's fastest swimmers. Swimmers will refine their freestyle with the most effective hand entry, high-elbow catch, underwater pull, core drive, and propulsive kick.Swim Speed Secrets revealed the freestyle technique used by the world's fastest swimmers. Now Swim Speed Workouts unlocks those secrets to swimming p
She's the only person I know who has made four Olympic teams in three different sports." -- Jim Richardson, Head Coach of the University of Michigan women's swim team. We still use her as a model for our swimmers today on how to swim the strokes." -- Jack Bauerle, Team USA Olympic Swim Coach and Head Coach of the University of Georgia swim team"With Sheila's help, you can stop swimming for survival and start swimming like a pro." -- Laura Bennett, 2010 ITU #1-ranked swimmer, four-time ITU World Triathlon Championship medalist, Olympian, and two-time U.S. "Swim Speed Workouts is the pool version of in-home workout videos. Her knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm are unmatched." -- Siri Lindley, ITU Triathlon World Champion and coac