Even though swimming is the closest thing to a perfect exercise you can name, too few people experience its full benefits. That's because most find themselves fighting to stay afloat, struggling for air, and feeling exhausted after just a lap or two, all of which makes this perfect exercise frustrating, laborious, and complicated. For the past ...
Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, this sports memoir is the acclaimed life story of long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches. High school & older.
Bare, stark swimming pools - those rectangular concrete holes in the ground surrounded by a chain link fence - are going the way of the dinosaurs. Pool owners have begun to see the pool and the area around it as an outdoor living space, a place for entertaining a crowd or relaxing alone. In response to this hot, new trend, gardener and landscape ...
A gifted athlete who's twice qualified as a swimmer in the Junior Olympics, disenfranchised high school senior T.J. Jones (the only student of color in his school) has always shunned school athletics. It is only after his favorite teacher, Mr. Simet, begs him to help form a swim team for the school (thus helping save Mr. Simet's job), that T.J. ...
You'll be swimming with ideas when you dip into Sunset's new Swimming Pools & Spas. It covers everything you need to plan, design, and build a new pool or spa; maintain, repair, and refurbish existing ones; plus proven energy- and money-saving tips. Soak up some inspiration for your dream pool with over 80 photographs featuring the latest ...
"Learn to Swim guides parents of babies and children from ages 6 months to 4 years, through progressive, baby-friendly lessons that not only build confidence and help control sleeping problems and tantrums, but are proven to stimulate intelligence and concentration, increase emotional and physical development and boost immunities.
On Sunday, April 8, 2007, a 52-year-old self-described fat man in a Speedo by the name of Martin Strel swam 3,274 miles of the Amazon River. The Fish Man, as he was called by locals, almost died in the process several times. At the finish his blood pressure was at heart attack level, his entire body full of subcutaneous larvae, and besieged by ...
"The Complete Guide to Maintaining Pools & Spas" will both inspire and educate readers on the practical points of owning and maintaining a home swimming pool, hot tub or recreational whirlpool. For those considering a recreational water feature, an exciting gallery chapter and a planning/design chapter will display the latest trends and products, ...
Clean, healthful, sparkling water - that's what a swimming pool is all about. Professional pool maintenance crews will keep a swimming pool clean and its water crystal clear but they cost a fortune. Yet many pool owners who try the do-it-yourself approach find themselves plagued by a host of troubles. Cloudy water. Algae sprouting on the pool's ...
One dark morning while the 17-year-old author was training for a long-distance swim, she became aware that something was swimming with her--a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother. This is the magical, mysterious tale of how Cox miraculously reunited mother and baby.
Dan Hardy has used every available resource in his 20-year career as a pool professional to add to his store of knowledge about making and keeping water safe. An untiring and dedicated 'Pool Doctor', he has become the 'go to' man for owners of some of the world's largest, most ornate, and expensive private swimming pools - including that of award ...
This story is not a swimming diary but Phelps's tale of adversities and redemption. This new edition contains a substantial update, as Phelps--current holder of six world records--reflects on his life since his record-setting performance in Athens and his 2004 DUI arrest.
The pool is seen as architecture, as sculpture, as gathering place, and as art--seductive, dreamlike, romantic--in a unique collection of photographs taken from the '20s through the '50s by the great photographers--Latrigue, Stieglitz, Munkacsi, Weston, Mapplethorpe, Weber, and others. 189 photographs, many in full color.
This guide to constructing a successful swimming programme covers all aspects of coaching including motivation, communication, planning, technique instrcution and evaluation.
A self-teaching programme for all levels. Step-by-step skill drills are provided which include how to: improve strokes to speed up conditioning; eliminate drag and create more propulsion with less energy; burn off fat through swimming; and use dry-land exercises to improve results in the water.
Featuring wisdom from swimming's best and brightest coaches, this handbook offers specific drills and techniques for coaching each swimming stroke, as well as detailed training programs for every event. 97 illustrations.
Great for fitness, weight control, and soothing everything from aching backs to 20th-century stress, swimming works all muscles of the body, is virtually injury-free, and provides aerobic conditioning and other health benefits. Now a top Masters swimmer has put together a guide for swimmers at every level. 100 line drawings.
This story about a girl who learns she is half mermaid lures readers into a glorious undersea world--an enchanting fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the power of love. Includes a foil-stamped bookmark on the back cover. Illustrations. Consumable.
Four high school swimmers accept a week-long endurance challenge from their coach and vow to emerge as stotans--a cross between a stoic and a Spartan. While undergoing this challenge, the boys must also face their own personal demons, including an abusive father and a terminal illness.
Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinity for water. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools and spas, from fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries, even ...
Every newborn baby has the potential to become a water baby. This title introduces readers to the Birthlight water training approach - a series of exercises developed over many years to encourage confidence and enhance enjoyment in water for you and your baby toddler. "Water Babies" takes the reader through a gentle sequence of exercises designed ...
An autobiography by Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, in which he documents his troubled childhood, the solace he sought in diving, his homosexuality and how it affected his career, and the abuse he suffered at the hands of his lover.
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