Finally, a good book focused on dryland training for swimmers. I got a copy for my sons, both who are competitive swimmers. It’s interesting to note that in recent years even swim greats such as Michael Phelps have added dryland strength workouts to their long hours in the pool. As Phelps re-breaks world records he [...]
Yes, the book doesn’t have extraordinary exercise descriptions, but the essential exercises are described well… I don’t think the point of the book was to describe exercises… the purpose was to explain to you “Complex training” and how it can help you achieve “Explosive power and strenght.”If you want superb exercise descriptions, try his book [...]
Like so many products, this book includes information that could be helpful or useless depending on the need.It has standard information found in many other conditioning books that cover a variety of exercisesdrills used for a wide variety of sports that may or may not include tennis.It uses figurines to demonstrate some of the drills [...]
on heartrate monitoring, the monitors themselves, and on principles of training.Also suggests submaximal and maximal tests to determine maximum heartrate and provides suggestions about putting together training programs for everyone from those seeking weight loss to those who are competitive athletes.
The first five chapters present basic heart zone training principles and also outline some useful [...]
I began mountain biking February of this year(’03).I threw up on my first ride.I raced my first race in April and came in 22nd of 24 finishers.I bought this book in May.About five months later I was flying through our local tough park, Markham maintained by ClubMud.org (believe it or not we have some decent [...]