London 2012 Training Guide Swimming
Author(s): Roger Guttridge
This training book is the perfect introduction to the Olympic Swimming events and will prove an indispensable guide for both the keen beginner and club swimmer. Written by a leading swimming journalist and illustrated with over 50 specially commissioned diagrams, this official book gives an overview of each Swimming event and covers training safety, tactics and techniques, and standards of performance to aim for. Whether you are a beginner who simply wants to try a new sport or a budding Olympian who dreams of one day winning a gold medal, this concise and easy-to-use book will take you to the next level.
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Roger Guttridge is one of the UK's leading swimming journalists and currently writes about the sport for the Daily Express and Sunday Express. A former press officer to the Great Britain Swim Team, he is the principal news and feature writer for Swimming Times magazine, covering the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games and the 2009 FINA World Championships.
Foreword by Rebecca Adlington OBE; Introduction; Getting Started; Know the Pool The Events: (Overview / History / Equipment / Warming Up and Cooling Down / Training Safety / Techniques and Strokes / Teaching Steps / Troubleshooting / Personal Assessment / Standards of Performance) 50 metres Freestyle, 100 metres Freestyle, 200 metres Freestyle, 400 metres Freestyle, 800 metres Freestyle, 1500 Freestyles, 100 metres Backstroke, 200 metres Backstroke, 100 metres Breaststroke, 200 metres Breaststroke, 100 metres Butterfly, 200 metres Butterfly, 200 metres individual medley; 400 metres individual medley; Marathon 10 kilometres; 4 X 100 metres freestyle relay; 4 X 200 metres freestyle relay; 4 X 100 metres medley relay and Open water events.
General Fields
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- : Carlton Books Ltd
- : Carlton Books Ltd
- : 02 March 2011
- : 210mm X 150mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roger Guttridge
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 128
- : 150 colour photographs & illustrations