As I was perusing the reviews for 100 Best Swimming Drills I thought to myself "Self, what do the USMS forumites have to say about their favourite swimming books?"
I enjoy Taormina's Swim Speed Secrets (but I hate the title).
The Science Of Swimming Faster (Riewald) is epic for geeks like me.
Swimming Studies (Shapton) is a wonderful compendium of swimming memories and experiences.
Thoughts?
On the training side ... www.amazon.ca/.../073607242X
On technique, I'm a huge fan of Terry Laughlin's works - www.totalimmersion.net/.../. But, full disclosure as I'm biased because Terry was my age group swimming coach and got me to my first Junior Nationals when I was 13, so I trust his technical mind. I also re-discovered his approach around 2008 as a Masters swimmer and re-worked my freestyle, swimming my fastest of my masters career into my late 40s (e.g., Masters' best 1000/1650 and 1500 when I was 48-49).
I have VHS total immersion tapes from way back when.... I would love a current thread discussing TI. It seems that more swimmers at my club (many of whom are triathletes) do not employ total rotation and I often wonder how the heck they are able to swim so fast with only shoulder rotation? One of our Ironman guys (who has won 3rd in age group) is just now working on moving from shoulder rotation to whole body rotation. Sorry, I'm digressing.......:D
On the training side ... www.amazon.ca/.../073607242X
On technique, I'm a huge fan of Terry Laughlin's works - www.totalimmersion.net/.../. But, full disclosure as I'm biased because Terry was my age group swimming coach and got me to my first Junior Nationals when I was 13, so I trust his technical mind. I also re-discovered his approach around 2008 as a Masters swimmer and re-worked my freestyle, swimming my fastest of my masters career into my late 40s (e.g., Masters' best 1000/1650 and 1500 when I was 48-49).
I have VHS total immersion tapes from way back when.... I would love a current thread discussing TI. It seems that more swimmers at my club (many of whom are triathletes) do not employ total rotation and I often wonder how the heck they are able to swim so fast with only shoulder rotation? One of our Ironman guys (who has won 3rd in age group) is just now working on moving from shoulder rotation to whole body rotation. Sorry, I'm digressing.......:D
