swimming

Presents a comprehensive illustrated guide to improve swimming techniques, and contains workouts for both beginning and more advanced swimmers, specialized drills, and instructions for push-offs and flip turns.

Provides practical advice on how to improve swimming techniques and conditioning levels; includes sixty workouts and sixteen sample training programs.

Outlines a comprehensive training program for swimmers, covering warming up, cooling down, training for specific strokes, building endurance, core stability, developing explosive power, enhancing flexibility, preventing and coping with injury, nutrition, hydration, and strength conditioning.

Provides step-by-step instructions for one hundred swimming drills aimed at improving technique for the four competitive strokes--freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly--and preventing injuries. Includes diagrams and underwater and surface photographs.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

A fourteen-year-old girl deals with the pressures, rivalries, sacrifices, and rewards of competitive swimming.

Fourteen-year-old Samantha has difficulty coping with her mother's impending remarriage and tries to evade the situation by involving herself completely in the activities of the swim team.

Hopper the Arctic hare attempts a shortcut across a river even though he cannot swim.