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Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes: Master Freestyle, Butterfly, Breaststroke and Backstroke for Your Fastest Swimming (Swim Speed Series) Paperback – July 7, 2023
Swim better and faster in all four strokes with 4-time Olympian and gold medalist Sheila Taormina.
In her bestselling book Swim Speed Secrets, Taormina revealed the freestyle swimming technique used by the world's fastest swimmers. Now in Swim Speed Strokes, she shows swimmers and triathletes how to swim their best in all four strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. Using crystal-clear photographs and her engaging, straightforward style, Coach Taormina explains the science behind power and speed in the water, explores the elements common to every stroke, and examines the technique of each stroke.
Over the course of 4 Olympic Games and throughout her career as a world champion triathlete, Taormina refined her exceptional technique as a student of the sport, studying the world’s best swimmers using underwater photographs and video analysis. From Johnny Weissmuller to Michael Phelps, the world’s fastest swimmers share two common elements: high stroke rate and a high-elbow underwater pull. Swim Speed Strokes goes deep into the fastest swimming techniques and breaks down the pull, kick, core movement, and timing of 13 elite swimmers and Olympians including Peter Vanderkaay, Rebecca Soni, Aaron Peirsol, Rowdy Gaines, Ashley Whitney, Vlad Morozov, Ariana Kukors, Andrew Gemmell, Laura Sogar, Nicolas Fink, Elizabeth Beisel, Doug Reynolds, and Melanie Margalis.
From the catch through the curvilinear path and diagonal phase to the power-packed finish phase, Taormina explores the pull patterns to show how any swimmer can improve their own swimming. Whether you want to master every stroke or simply improve on your best one, Swim Speed Strokes will show you how to become the strongest swimmer you can be.
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 7, 2023
- Dimensions7 x 0.51 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101937715213
- ISBN-13978-1937715212
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"Swim Speed Workouts is the pool version of in-home workout videos. The cards can be used by beginning to experienced swimmers or triathletes training independently of a coach, or provide easy illustrations of drills and tubing exercises for coaches to share with their swimmers." -- USA Swimming's SPLASH magazine
"Freestyle gone funky on you? Stuck in a rut where you can't seem to get faster? Swim Speed Secrets could be the cure for the freestyle blues. Master swimmers and coaches at every level can learn something from this book" ¦Both the book and [the Swim Speed Workouts] training program are outstanding." -- USMS Swimmer magazine
"Four-time Olympian Sheila Taormina took the lessons she taught in her recent book Swim Speed Secrets and developed a 16-week workout plan in the new Swim Speed Workouts." -- Triathlete magazine
"Our testers, ranging from beginner to advanced swimmers, enthusiastically agreed that Swim Speed Workouts is a great pool-side companion. The water proof, step-by-step workouts come in a collection of individual cards and fit seamlessly into any training program." -- TriEdge.net
"Sheila T. is just 5' 2" but she swims like she is 6' 2". 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. triathlon champion
"Sheila Taormina's ideas on swimming have influenced me and my swim coaching more than anyone else. Her knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm are unmatched." -- Siri Lindley, ITU Triathlon World Champion and coach to triathlon world champions and Olympic medalists
"Sheila possesses a great depth of knowledge and passion about swimming that she has often shared with me and many other athletes." -- Leanda Cave, ITU Triathlon World Champion and ITU Long-Distance Triathlon World Champion
"As a lifelong coach, the four-time Olympian shares what she's learned with clarity and authority, explaining all of the small details that go into mastering freestyle." -- LAVA magazine
From the Back Cover
SWIM BETTER AND FASTER IN ALL FOUR STROKES
In her best-selling book Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian and gold medalist Sheila Taormina revealed the freestyle swimming technique used by the world's fastest swimmers.
Now in Swim Speed Strokes, Taormina shows swimmers and triathletes how to swim their best in all four swimming strokes--butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. Using crystal-clear photographs and her engaging, straightforward style, Coach Taormina explains the science behind power and speed in the water, explores the elements common to every stroke, and examines stroke technique in detail in individual stroke chapters.
Swim Speed Strokes features elite swimmers and Olympians, including Peter Vanderkaay, Rebecca Soni, Aaron Peirsol, Rowdy Gaines, Ashley Whitney, Vlad Morozov, Ariana Kukors, Andrew Gemmell, Laura Sogar, Nicolas Fink, Elizabeth Beisel, Doug Reynolds, and Melanie Margalis. Stunning over- and underwater photographs unveil the winning technique that has carried these athletes to the top of their sport. Whether you want to master every stroke or simply improve on your best one, Swim Speed Strokes will get you there and make you the strongest swimmer you can be.
"Sheila's book clearly unlocks the secrets." --Dara Torres, 12-time Olympic medalist
"With Sheila's help, you can stop swimming for survival and start swimming like a pro." --Laura Bennett, Olympic triathletes and U.S. national champion
SHEILA TAORMINA has competed in four Olympic games in three different sports--swimming, triathlon, and modern pentathlon. Her exceptional freestyle swimming technique helped her win a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics and the 2004 ITU Triathlon World Championship. Taormina has coached elite and age-group swimmers and triathletes for 15 years, and she conducts dozens of swim clinics around the world each year. She is the author of Swim Speed Secrets and Swim Speed Workouts.
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- Publisher : VeloPress (July 7, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1937715213
- ISBN-13 : 978-1937715212
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 0.51 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #183,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #31 in Triathlons (Books)
- #48 in Swimming (Books)
- #289 in Sports Training (Books)
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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 :).
Sheila rocks!
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