Book Description
Improve your swimming technique and your conditioning level with Fitness Swimming! Inside you’ll find 60 workouts in six zones color-coded by intensity and duration, plus 16 sample programs that show you how to put together a complete training program. Written by coach Emmett Hines, Fitness Swimming is part of the Fitness Spectrum Series—a collection of books from Human Kinetics that offers fitness enthusiasts and sports participants a practical and flexible approach to training.


Book Info
Author is director and head coach of H2Ouston Swims. Provides practical advice on how to swim faster and easier. Includes 60 workouts in six zones, color-coded by intensity and duration. Also includes 16 sample programs. For swimmers and coaches. Color illustrations. Softcover.


From the Publisher
"Fitness Swimming is filled with sound, practical advice on how to swim faster and easier and is informed by Emmett Hines’ elegant writing and wonderful, down-home sense of humor. A must read for serious masters and fitness swimmers." Phillip Whitten, PhD Editor-in-Chief, Swimming World and SWIM Author, The Complete Book of Swimming "Finally, someone has written a book about swimming that makes sense. Emmett’s ability to explain swimming concepts in an understandable way is unparalleled. This book will open the eyes of any fitness swimmer, from novice to ex-Olympian." Troy Dalbey Head Masters Coach, The Phoenix Swim Club Double Gold Medalist, 1988 Olympics Former World Record Holder "Coach Emmett Hines has created an invaluable tool for improvement-minded swimmers. Fitness Swimming perfectly complements the Total Immersion book and method by providing sensible and friendly guidance on how to build fitness and stroke efficiency in a seamless combination." Terry Laughlin Director, Total Immersion Swimming Author, Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier


About the Author
Emmett Hines is one of only nine coaches to hold the Level 5 Masters Certification—the American Swim Coaches Association’s highest adult coaching certification. He has been coaching in some form since the age of 14. Since founding his company, H2Ouston Swims, in 1982 he has concentrated his efforts almost exclusively on adult swimmers, from beginning swimmers all the way up to those with Olympic pedigrees. His wife Peggy runs the youth side of the swimming program. Hines is also a teaching pro at the prestigious Houstonian Club and travels the country as a senior coach and instructor trainer for Total Immersion Adult Swim Camps, the world’s most widely known and respected adult swimming instruction organization. Hines is a regularly featured writer for Swim Magazine, the official publication of United States Masters Swimming (USMS). He has had over 150 articles published in swimming and triathlon magazines and newsletters. He has spoken at the ASCA World Coaches Clinic and Pacific Coaches Clinic—two of the largest professional swim coaches gatherings in the world. Swimmers under his guidance have won numerous team and individual National Championship titles and have set several national and world records. Hines has served as the Assistant USMS Editor for Swim Magazine, editor of the Masters Aquatic Coaches Association newsletter and editor of Gulf Masters Swimming Newsletter. He is also an active United States Senior Olympics volunteer.

ANNOTATION

"...provides step-by-step instruction for building a more effective, efficient freestyle stroke...explains how to set up a complete swimming fitness or training plan...includes sample training plans for conditioning or competition."

FROM THE PUBLISHER