Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes: Master Freestyle, Butterfly, Breaststroke and Backstroke for Your Fastest Swimming (Swim Speed Series) Kindle Edition

I did some research on the Author before buying this digital book and my first impression was "the b**** is trying to make as much money as she can selling devices and different books that probably saying the same thing" but after reading the reviews I thought I will try out this $10 book and see for my self.IT IS AN AMAZING BOOK very informative well constructed and illustrated and I will start to purchase all Shelies products.My 9 yrs son who is training 7.5 hours/week in elite club needed some guidance to understand the proper techniques of all strokes and sometimes needs to know why such techniques work better, but where he trains with another 20 swimmers of different ability to comprehend the science of the techniques, I needed a source of reliable information to feed him what he needs and can understand, and what better than an Olympic medalist to provide you with it.Any Olympic athlete who present such a work explaining the details of their relative sport do deserve all our support and the financial gain they get out of it after they spent the good part of their life's with long daily excersise year in and year out.Now me and my son are planing to go to the pool on weekends (when he usually don't train) just to work on his technique taken from the book and armed with underwater GOpro camera for later on video analysis. We have the photos in the book to compare to and then he has his normal training sessions to further practice, enhance and perfect his technique.Thank you Sheily and are more confedant now of my son chance to win his first medal soon :).

I've been swimming for about three years with no improvement in swim speed, which was difficult for me to believe. I knew there must be a technique problem. I took a short swim clinic by the author Sheila and followed up by buying and reading this book and her other book on the freestyle stroke Swim Speed Secrets. This book highlights the most important part of the stroke - the pull - and gives you all the specifics needed to improve. Now I have specific things to think about to improve my stroke. Within just a few weeks of practicing these techniques I was swimming faster and enjoying swimming more. I also like how she highlights the similarities between different strokes, which gives me simpler rules to follow when I'm trying to improve.

This book has great pictures of all the strokes at lots of angles. It also covers the science and reasoning behind the stroke which I really appreciated. It also has charts at the end of each chapter that tell you the split times of elite athletes and how many strokes it took them to get that time and how fast they were taking their strokes which I thought was interesting. It doesn't cover turns but it talks about sighting in open water swimming which I knew nothing about and it also talked about the straight arm freestyle which isn't covered in most books. The book is mostly based around swimming with a curvilinear pull pattern so if you don't believe in that then don't buy.

This is not the definitive book of swimming, but it is the probably the best single book for the individual swimmer to understand how to improve their technique and the science of it. It is a nice read with excellent photos. It shows you exactly how you should be doing it, photo by photo. You can apply what you read immediately even if you just read the chapter for a specific stroke.. written by a swimmer for swimmers. It had an immediate impact on my technique and time..

I've read most of the books on competitive swimming technique going all the way back to Counsilman's "Science of Swimming" and if I was going to own only one book, this would be it. It is clearly written with beautifully clear photos that make it a pleasure to read over and over. Each time, I get something more out of it, or refresh something I'd forgotten. The best part is it's accuracy. Sheila uses world record holders and world record performances to illustrate the physics, form and turnover rate we should be using. As a competitive swimmer and coach, this is a gold mine of great information!

Great quality, good price and helpful information

This has been beneficial in terms of understanding the various strokes. I am going to go back and look at her earlier book and look at companion videos. The pictures are extremely beneficial because it has allowed me the opportunity to see what the hand position looks like through the pull and check body position. Utilizing several athletes allows the chance to compare the strokes and see the similarities and differences. Well done.

Bought for my 15 year old Grandson who is a very successful swimmer. He has regular lessons with a coach everyday but this book has given him a look into some 'finer' points of swimming and of course reading about it is a whole lot different then instruction IN the pool I guess? He is very impressed with it.

Purchased the book on the previous review, which was excellent! The book lives up to it's expectations; it is simple to understand and the many photographs accompanying the chapters really helps you to understand the importance of technique to swim well. My only reservation is that I bought this book for my 12 year old competitive swimmer and I believe the book is definitely aimed at adult swimmers.

An amazing publication for coaches and swimmers alike. Well written and constructed with great photograps which clearly illustrate each part of the stroke. The day after reading the first few chapters I was in the pool myself re-assessing my strokes!

a good read

Great present

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