Authors: Ernest Maglischo
ISBN-13: 9780736031806, ISBN-10: 0736031804
Format: Other Format
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Ernest W. Maglischo coached swimming for 38 years, working at four universities and two swim clubs. He has won 13 NCAA national championships at the Division II level and 19 conference championships. In 1996 he was honored as the Pacific 10 Conference Swimming Coach of the Year, and he has been named NCAA s Division II coach of the year an unprecedented eight times. He has also received the highest coaching award, the National Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy.
Maglischo holds a PhD in exercise physiology from the Ohio State University. He s a member of the College Swimming Coaches Association, the American Swimming Coaches Association, and U.S.A. Swimming, where he serves on the Sports Medicine Committee. Now retired, Maglischo lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Swim faster and stronger with Swimming Fastest, the ultimate swimming guide for stroke technique and training methods for competitive swimming. By offering a thorough analysis of each of the primary strokes, this book explains the how and why of training and execution, includes sample workouts, and is the best way to trim seconds off your time.
Preface | ||
1 | Increasing Propulsion | 5 |
2 | Reducing Resistance | 43 |
3 | Guidelines for Increasing Propulsion and Reducing Resistance | 65 |
4 | Front Crawl Stroke | 95 |
5 | Butterfly | 145 |
6 | Back Crawl Stroke | 181 |
7 | Breaststroke | 219 |
8 | Starts, Turns, and Finishes | 265 |
9 | Physiological Responses to Exercise | 319 |
10 | Energy Metabolism and Swimming Performance | 349 |
11 | Performance Benefits of Training | 373 |
12 | Principles of Training | 395 |
13 | Endurance Training | 417 |
14 | Sprint, Race-Pace, and Recovery Training | 451 |
15 | Training for Different Events | 485 |
16 | Monitoring Training | 541 |
17 | Season Planning | 593 |
18 | Tapering | 653 |
19 | Overtraining | 669 |
20 | Stroke Rates and Stroke Lengths | 695 |
21 | Pacing and Strategy | 715 |
22 | Warming Up and Swimming Down | 747 |
References | 753 | |
Index | 779 | |
About the Author | 791 |