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Fitness Swimming
Emmett Hines
Fitness Swimming is a great book for all swimming abilities. Many swimmers think that to improve, all they need to do is get in the pool and swim an ever increasing number of laps. What they fail to understand is that swimming is a technique sport. Unless they incorporate skill development, refinement, and maintenance into their workouts they won’t become better swimmers, just better conditioned thrashers.
Fitness Swimming is designed to help recreational and competitive swimmers, as well as triathletes, improve both their swimming technique and their conditioning. The book shows how to step by step build a more effective and efficient freestyle stroke using simple drills; then it guides swimmers through a structured conditioning program that emphasizes continued development and refinement of that technique.
The heart of Fitness Swimming consists of 60 color-coded workouts that challenge swimmers according to their fitness level and swimming ability. The workouts are distributed across six color zones and get progressively longer and more intense as swimmers move through the zones. The book begins with green workouts, which are the easiest, and ends with red workouts, the hardest.
The book not only explains how to set up an effective training regimen using the color-coded workouts, it also provides 16 sample training progams. Swimmers can follow these sample programs as they appear, or they can be used as a starting point for designing individually tailored programs.
Fitness Swimming also offers advice on stretching, warming up and cooling down effectively, and choosing the best equipment.
About the Author
Emmett Hines is one of the top masters swimming coaches in the nation. He is one of only 13 coaches to hold the level 5 Masters certification, the American Swim Coaches Association’s (ASCA) highest adult coaching certification. In 2002 he received the Masters Aquatic Coaches Association Lifetime Achievement Award. He also was honored as the U.S. Masters Swimming Coach of the Year in 1993. Hines has been coaching in some form since the age of 14. The director and head coach of H2Ouston Swims, Hines has coached adult swimmers for more than 25 years—from beginners to those with Olympic pedigrees. He has conducted clinics across the country and internationally as a senior coach for Total Immersion Swim Camps, the world’s most widely known and respected organization for adult swimming instruction.
Hines’ articles have been featured in Swim Magazine, he writes a monthly column for Runner Triathlete News, and he has published over 200 articles in swimming and triathlon magazines and newsletters. He has spoken at the ASCA World Coaches Clinic and Pacific Coaches Clinic, two of the largest professional swim coaches’ gatherings in the world. Swimmers under his guidance have won numerous team and individual national championship titles and set numerous national and world records. Hines has served as the assistant USMS editor for Swim Magazine, editor of the Masters Aquatic Coaches Association (MACA) newsletter, and editor of Gulf Masters Swim Committee (GMSC) newsletter.
Throughout all of his swim-related activities, Hines seeks to use his creativity and humor to expand the world of adult swimming while improving the knowledge and skill of swimmers and instructors alike.
His wife, Peggy, is a swim coach as well, and both of his boys are fish. Aside from swimming, the whole family is actively involved in competitive target archery.
Table of Contents Part I Preparing to Swim Chapter 1. Swimming for Your Life Chapter 2. Getting Equipped Chapter 3. Assessing Your Swimming Fitness
Part II Swimming the Right Way Chapter 4. Your Relationship With the Water Chapter 5. Posture and Balance Drills Chapter 6. Stroke Integration Drills and Turns Chapter 7. Warming Up, Stretching, and Cooling Down
Part III Swimming Workouts Chapter 8. Level 1 Chapter 9. Level 2 Chapter 10. Level 3 Chapter 11. Level 4 Chapter 12. Level 5 Chapter 13. Level 6
Part IV Training Over the Long Haul Chapter 14. Planning Seasonal Training Chapter 15. Sample Programs Chapter 16. Charting Your Progress
Words of Praise "Emmett Hines is an influential coach—a pioneer among masters swimming coaches. In Fitness Swimming he shares the very latest on swimming technique, and his no-nonsense approach to stroke analysis is refreshing. No swimming library would be complete without this book."
Bill Volckening Editor, USMS Swimmer
"Emmett has done a great job of creating a resource for swimmers on the technique and conditioning fundamentals of the sport. No matter what level, the drills and workouts will help you become a better all-around swimmer."
Glenn Mills U.S. Olympic Swimmer and Founder of GoSwim.tv
Shipping Weight: 2.0 lbs.
Fitness Swimming is a great book for all swimming abilities. Many swimmers think that to improve, all they need to do is get in the pool and swim an ever increasing number of laps. What they fail to understand is that swimming is a technique sport. Unless they incorporate skill development, refinement, and maintenance into their workouts they won’t become better swimmers, just better conditioned thrashers.
Fitness Swimming is designed to help recreational and competitive swimmers, as well as triathletes, improve both their swimming technique and their conditioning. The book shows how to step by step build a more effective and efficient freestyle stroke using simple drills; then it guides swimmers through a structured conditioning program that emphasizes continued development and refinement of that technique.
The heart of Fitness Swimming consists of 60 color-coded workouts that challenge swimmers according to their fitness level and swimming ability. The workouts are distributed across six color zones and get progressively longer and more intense as swimmers move through the zones. The book begins with green workouts, which are the easiest, and ends with red workouts, the hardest.
The book not only explains how to set up an effective training regimen using the color-coded workouts, it also provides 16 sample training progams. Swimmers can follow these sample programs as they appear, or they can be used as a starting point for designing individually tailored programs.
Fitness Swimming also offers advice on stretching, warming up and cooling down effectively, and choosing the best equipment.
About the Author
Emmett Hines is one of the top masters swimming coaches in the nation. He is one of only 13 coaches to hold the level 5 Masters certification, the American Swim Coaches Association’s (ASCA) highest adult coaching certification. In 2002 he received the Masters Aquatic Coaches Association Lifetime Achievement Award. He also was honored as the U.S. Masters Swimming Coach of the Year in 1993. Hines has been coaching in some form since the age of 14. The director and head coach of H2Ouston Swims, Hines has coached adult swimmers for more than 25 years—from beginners to those with Olympic pedigrees. He has conducted clinics across the country and internationally as a senior coach for Total Immersion Swim Camps, the world’s most widely known and respected organization for adult swimming instruction.
Hines’ articles have been featured in Swim Magazine, he writes a monthly column for Runner Triathlete News, and he has published over 200 articles in swimming and triathlon magazines and newsletters. He has spoken at the ASCA World Coaches Clinic and Pacific Coaches Clinic, two of the largest professional swim coaches’ gatherings in the world. Swimmers under his guidance have won numerous team and individual national championship titles and set numerous national and world records. Hines has served as the assistant USMS editor for Swim Magazine, editor of the Masters Aquatic Coaches Association (MACA) newsletter, and editor of Gulf Masters Swim Committee (GMSC) newsletter.
Throughout all of his swim-related activities, Hines seeks to use his creativity and humor to expand the world of adult swimming while improving the knowledge and skill of swimmers and instructors alike.
His wife, Peggy, is a swim coach as well, and both of his boys are fish. Aside from swimming, the whole family is actively involved in competitive target archery.
Table of Contents Part I Preparing to Swim Chapter 1. Swimming for Your Life Chapter 2. Getting Equipped Chapter 3. Assessing Your Swimming Fitness
Part II Swimming the Right Way Chapter 4. Your Relationship With the Water Chapter 5. Posture and Balance Drills Chapter 6. Stroke Integration Drills and Turns Chapter 7. Warming Up, Stretching, and Cooling Down
Part III Swimming Workouts Chapter 8. Level 1 Chapter 9. Level 2 Chapter 10. Level 3 Chapter 11. Level 4 Chapter 12. Level 5 Chapter 13. Level 6
Part IV Training Over the Long Haul Chapter 14. Planning Seasonal Training Chapter 15. Sample Programs Chapter 16. Charting Your Progress
Words of Praise "Emmett Hines is an influential coach—a pioneer among masters swimming coaches. In Fitness Swimming he shares the very latest on swimming technique, and his no-nonsense approach to stroke analysis is refreshing. No swimming library would be complete without this book."
Bill Volckening Editor, USMS Swimmer
"Emmett has done a great job of creating a resource for swimmers on the technique and conditioning fundamentals of the sport. No matter what level, the drills and workouts will help you become a better all-around swimmer."
Glenn Mills U.S. Olympic Swimmer and Founder of GoSwim.tv
Shipping Weight: 2.0 lbs.
