Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System for Swimmers and Triathletes Author: Paul Newsome Adam Young | Language: English | ISBN:
1119963192 | Format: PDF
Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System for Swimmers and Triathletes Description
Transform your technique and become a better swimmer with this remarkable new approach to freestyle swimmingWritten for both fitness and competitive swimmers, Swim Smooth contains the latest breakthroughs in swimming to help you radically improve your speed, enjoyment, and success. Hundreds of full-color photographs and three-dimensional graphics help you put theory into practice while detailed advice offers help for intermediate, advanced, and elite swimmers alike. The book's approach lets you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your stroke and drills and training tips let you make the most of your time in the water.
Swim Efficently. Swim Fast. Swim Smooth.
- Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: *Wiley Nautical; 2 edition (July 25, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1119963192
- ISBN-13: 978-1119963196
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
At the age of 29.5 years old, I decided that I wanted to learn how to swim with the goal of participating in triathlons, so I'm writing this review from the standpoint of someone completely new to the sport. I had very little experience in the water my entire life (although I've always been in pretty good shape and participated in a variety of land-based sports), could do little more than fight my way across the pool to the other side, and looking back, I grossly underestimated the effort that would be involved in becoming a "good swimmer", largely because it has taken me a really long time to become truly relaxed in the water. Over 18 months later, I'm still "learning how to swim" but have made substantial progress (currently swimming at around 1:50 per 100 and trending even lower, which is terrific for me), largely thanks to the Swim Smooth website and the tremendous work that Paul Newsome and Adam Young have put into it taking such a slippery topic and breaking it down into a relatively simple science that's consumable by the masses. (To be clear, that's somewhere around 500 "career" swimming hours over 18 months, which works out to be around an hour a day on average and seems like a lot...except that there are 6 year olds out there with more career swimming hours than I have accrued, which is quite humbling.)
Having extensively reviewed the material on the website, followed the blog, and kept up with everything that Swim Smooth has to offer for over 18 months (including premium products like the Mr.
I am a recreational swimmer who tried to relearn to swim better back in 1998 from Terry Laughlin's book. I have never been on a swim team to get good coaching advice.
I have recently looked at a few new and old how-to-swim books. The newer advice is quite different from the older books which encouraged habits that can easily lead to shoulder injuries.
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A new book "Swim Smooth" has the most modern advice of all, along with a fine web site swimsmooth.com with a super free app you can download and watch from any angle and at very slow speed (esp from underneath to see the difference from the old S-shape recommended arm movement for the crawl). Looking through this book a few days ago already has led to a major revision of my freestyle.
You can get the essential info from this fun book by just looking at the numerous pictures and reading the captions.
My self-taught freestyle stroke has several major flaws, eg. I should not angle my hand sideways on entry which can injure the shoulder and I should not cross the center line on arm extension or pushback (some old books show the arm crossing horizontally under the body) which loses propulsion and leads to being off balance. The entry angle should be at a steep approx 45 degree angle and the hand should tip down for the catch right after full extension (instead of gliding more). And forget about a sideways scull and S-shape arm movement.
Anyway, the book "Swim Smooth" and web site (with the downloaded MrSmooth app) is my top choice for a relearn-to-swim-freestyle book for amateurs who have no coach.
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Next in line is the excellent second edition of "Fitness Swimming", pages 1-69, page 86, and pages 119-120 (the rest is workout schedules).
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