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Swimming Fastest | 
 enlarge | Author: Ernest W. Maglischo
Brand: Human Kinetics
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 46214
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3 Revised
Pages: 744
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.8 x 2.1
MPN: 0736031804
ISBN: 0736031804
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.21
EAN: 9780736031806
ASIN: 0736031804
Publication Date: February 28, 2003
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Condition: This is a hardcover book.
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Product Description
Put science to work for you in the pool to swim stronger and faster than ever! Swimming Fastest is a fully revised and updated version of Swimming Fastest, widely considered by coaches and swimmers as one of the best books ever written on competitive swimming. Author Ernest Maglischo reveals the science behind the training methods that led his teams to 13 NCAA Division II national championships.Swimming Fastest is the definitive reference on stroke technique and training methods. In addition to explaining what swimmers should do, Maglischo explain why techniques and training are to be executed a certain way.A primary feature in the book is thorough and insightful technique analysis of the four primary strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Accompanying the text are more than 500 photograhs and illustrations, including photos of world-class swimmers demonstration picture-perfect form. Supporting the technical instruction is a complete explanation of the physiological basis for the most effective training methods, including detailed sample workouts and training programs for each event.Swimming Fastest will benefit every serious swimmer and swimming coach. Gain new knowledge, refine technique, maximize training, and trim precious seconds off previous record times.
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 Highly technical. Great book, but probably not what you want. June 22, 2008
Michael P. Quinn (Lewisville, TX United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Maglischo is writing about physics as much as he writing about swimming. If you wanted to generate a computer model of a swimmer, this book is where you would start.
If you want to know the proper elbow position at point X through your butterfly stroke, this book is over kill. This book will tell you that, and it will also explain why it should be there, both from the aspects of mechanical efficiency and propulsion, as well as the experiments that were done to verify this theory, how those experiments were performed and possibly alternate theories that lack experimental evidence to their validity.
If that last sentence didn't give you a head ache, this is the right book for you.
The book that most people are looking for is the Total Immersion book by Laughlin.
 Happy Marriage of Acadmic Science and Practical Coaching. May 27, 2008
Alex Boutov (Chicago)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book lays yet another milestone on the road to understanding competitive swimming. It combines two polar points of view - academic science and practical coaching. Simple question "What can we do to improve swimming performance" is answered here to the fullest extent and depth available today. Ernest Maglischo compiled under one cover results of the relentless efforts of several generations of swimmers, coaches, and scientists.
Reader will find here comprehensive material on the swimming technique in all competitive strokes, starts, and turns. Physiological mechanisms, involved in sprint and endurance training are described from scientific point of view. Practical recommendations to build training sets and workouts derived from scientific knowledge. Same principles serve as foundation of training plans spanning from days and weeks to seasons and years.
Sport of swimming is progressing at a rapid pace. Inevitably, some aspects of our sport are not covered in the book. It has no coverage of open water and long distance events, which have earned Olympic status as of 2008. Masters swimming is also gaining popularity, presenting new challenges to the coaches. We don't have a reliable source in these fields yet. Setting these minor gaps aside, "Swimming Fastest" is a remarkable achievement.
If you want to know what mankind has learned about competitive swimming so far, if you want to separate facts about swimming from myths and opinions on the topic, this edition of "Swimming Fastest" is your unmatched resource.
All I ever needed to know about swimming January 8, 2007
Curt Altschul (San Jose, CA USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
My background is that I'm a former NCAA Championship competitor, nearly 30 years of age group and high school coaching; an MS in exercise physiology with specific research into blood chemistry and nutrition.
I used Dr. Maglischo's book as a guide for specific areas of my MS work.
Dr. Maglischo's book is an exceptional compilation. His analysis of stroke mechanics appropriately offers no absolutes regarding the perfect stroke as, at this time, no absolutes exist. Regardless of your preference as a swimmer or coach, stroke recommendation surrounds the most important aspect of swimming which is swimmer specific drag reduction.
In my opinion, Dr. Maglischo has come full circle regarding stroke mechanics. As a previous devoutee' to the traditional "action/reaction" approach to teaching stroke Maglischo, influenced by Councilman, examined and proposed the use of Bernouli's principle (lift) as the propulsive force in swimming. Yet today, Maglischo has examined great swimmers and realizes that what is good for one swimmer, may not be best for all. Some swimmers work best with 'action/reaction' concepts while other respond better to 'lift' principles.
What else is important about this text is the succinct explanation of the physiology of exercise. Without a thorough understanding of the biochemistry involved in performance, no coach can give his/her athletes the appropriate instruction surrounding training and racing. Without a physiological background, a coach can only mimic another. Dr. Maglischo provides all coaches, for all sports, the needed background to be creative in preparing workouts and teaching competition.
Finally, with regard to teaching competitive strategies, be you swimmer or coach, Dr. Malischo recommends exceptional approaches to preparing for a race.
Swimming Faster January 31, 2006
D. Graham
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a former swimming coach of elite swimmers, I consider this to be the gold standard on competitive swim training. It is the modern successor to Dr. Jim Cousilman's classic, "The Science of Swimming". This volume should be a required reference for all competitive swimmers and coaches.
 Needlessly cumbersome and obscure November 30, 2005
Georgy
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Not for beginners, very academic language, not how-to book
but it is so huge that you can drain out of 300 words one single clear word which will actually answer you question
Drawings are really poor ( he didn't know to draw a human figure in swimming positions! ) and don't add very much to the explanations
Some passages are very obscure ( although I should admit English is not my mother tongue ) but for example I didn't manage to get through the sentence like " the pike position should be established before the legs are leaving the jumping platform" ( about the starts )
And it has a lot of such obscure concepts.
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