NEW Strength Training For Faster Swimming - Lucero, Bly

with Blythe Lucero, currently oversees BE AR Swimming, Berkeley Barracudas and Berkeley Aquatic Masters, training swimmers of all ages, from novice to world class; NCAA All American swimmer Swimming-specific strength training gives competitive swimmers an edge. By strategically incorporating strength training into the swimming routine, better and quicker improvement can be expected. In order to enhance your performance, swimming alone is not enough. An effective strength training is crucial if you want to improve your swimming times. This book shows you what types of strength training benefit swimming and how to develop a winning routine. It includes swimspecific strength-training and lots of sample workouts. Other topics include: Types of strength training that benefit swimmers How to develop force, power, explosiveness and stability What makes strength training count including transferability, adaptation, orientation, variation, over-training, season planning Using muscles to move and stabilize Linking muscle movement Stages of development Strength training routines for all levels Strength training circuits for all levels Shoulder maintenance routine 168 pages. 2011.

by John Coffman This manual contains the exact weight training sessions that were used by the New Albany Aquatics Club (NAAC). There are a total of 50 weight training workouts, all in the order that were performed by the members of the club. It would serve you or your team best to use this information as a guide not to follow our training blindly, but to understand the general principles behind our methods and adjust workouts, exercises, sets and reps accordingly to get you or your team swimming faster. This exact weight training plan, coupled with "Weekly Dryland Workouts, " helped to produce a National Age-group Relay Record, State domination and a zero injury rate. Do not use this manual as your weight room "Bible", but simply as you or your team's strength training template a solid, organized plan that you can and should deviate from as necessary to reach the desired result faster swimming! 86 pages 2010.