The Swimmer's Workout Handbook: Improve Fitness with 100 Swim Workouts and Drills

ISBN: 1578266823

Author: Schneider, Terri

Condition: New

100 of the best swim workouts for all experience levels: fitness, Masters level, or competition. Easy-to-follow pool workouts designed to make you a stronger, faster, and more proficient swimmer.The Swimmers Workout Handbook is a complete guide to escaping the routine of pool swimming with varied training workouts to keep you challenged and engaged, and improve your performance.Expert and multi-sport coach Terri Schneider combines skill training with variations in speed, distance, and technique for an effective and easy-to-follow series of pool workouts designed to make you a stronger, faster, and more proficient swimmer.The Swimmers Workout Handbook includes: 100 swim workouts for all experience levels Expert-designed pool workouts A guide to common swim terms used in the workouts Information on gear and guidelines to get the most out of your workoutsSwimming improves core, muscular, and cardiovascular strength and endurance, all in a low-impact, gravity-free workout. If done two to several times per week, or as an addition to a multi-sport training regime, swimming helps maintain a healthy weight, heart, and lungs. These benefits are best realized within the diversity of your workouts.To increase your swim fitness it is optimal to vary intensity, interval distances, recovery, and strokes, all within one workout session. The diversity within a workout is what triggers the body to grow stronger, faster, and more proficient.Whether you only have time to swim 1000 meters/yards, or are up for 5000 at each session, The Swimmers Workout Handbook organizes speed, distance, and technique into these 100 fun and challenging training sessions-putting vitality back into your pool time.