In Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion Sheila Taormina reveals the swim technique used by the world’s fastest swimmers.
Over the course of 4 Olympic Games and throughout her career as a world champion triathlete, Taormina refined her exceptional technique as a student of the sport, studying the world’s best swimmers using underwater photographs and video analysis. From Johnny Weissmuller to Michael Phelps, the world’s fastest swimmers share two common elements: high stroke rate and a high-elbow underwater pull.
Many swimmers and triathletes neglect the underwater pull, distracted by stroke count or perfecting less critical details like body position, streamlining, and roll. Swim Speed Secrets focuses on producing power―the most crucial element of swimming―to help triathletes and swimmers overhaul their swim stroke and find the speed that’s been eluding them.
With a commonsense approach that comes from decades of practice and years of hands-on coaching experience, Taormina shows swimmers how to transition to faster swimming. Swim Speed Secrets includes:
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<li>The best drills to cultivate a more sensitive feel for the water</li>
<li>Dryland and strength building exercises to develop arm position and upper body musculature</li>
<li>Crisp photos of Olympic swimmers and variations in their high-elbow underwater pull</li>
<li>Clear descriptions of the key moments of the underwater pull</li>
<li>Tips that helped her perform at a world-class level for two decades</li>
</ul>
Sheila Taormina’s Swim Speed Secrets brings the focus back where it belongs―to a powerful underwater stroke. With this approach, triathletes and swimmers can stop swimming for survival and break through to new levels of speed and confidence in the water.

Swim Speed Secrets for Swimmers and Triathletes: Master the Freestyle Technique Used by the World's Fastest Swimmers (Swim Speed Series)

Science & Math

Taormina, Sheila

Biological Sciences

VeloPress

In Swim Speed Workouts, 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion Sheila Taormina provides the essential swimming instruction, workouts, drills, and training plan to build all-new levels of freestyle swimming speed. Swim Speed Workouts applies the principles of Taormina's influential swim technique book Swim Speed Secrets so swimmers and triathletes can get in the pool and get fast. Drawing from her 30-year racing and coaching career, Taormina's Swim Speed program is carefully designed to build freestyle swim speed one crucial step at a time. Over 16 weeks, swimmers and triathletes will swim high-impact workouts to build whole-body swimming fitness. Each waterproof swim workout card incorporates the Olympic swimming drills, kick sets, and drylands that develop speed in the world's fastest swimmers. Swimmers will refine their freestyle with the most effective hand entry, high-elbow catch, underwater pull, core drive, and propulsive kick. Swim Speed Secrets revealed the freestyle technique used by the world's fastest swimmers. Now Swim Speed Workouts unlocks those secrets to swimming performance, building up swimmers and triathletes to breakthrough swim speed.

Swim Speed Workouts for Swimmers and Triathletes: The Breakout Plan for Your Fastest Freestyle (Swim Speed Series)

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

In her best-selling book Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian and gold medalist Sheila Taormina revealed the freestyle swimming technique used by the world's fastest swimmers. 
Now in Swim Speed Strokes Taormina shows swimmers and triathletes how they can swim with elite technique in all four swimming strokes--butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. Using crystal-clear photographs and her engaging, straightforward style, Coach Taormina explains the science behind power and speed in the water, explores the elements common to every stroke, and examines stroke technique in detail in individual stroke chapters. 
Swim Speed Strokes goes deep into the fastest swimming technique for each stroke, breaking down the pull, kick, core movement, and timing of 13 elite swimmers and Olympians including Peter Vanderkaay, Rebecca Soni, Aaron Peirsol, Rowdy Gaines, Ashley Whitney, Vlad Morozov, Ariana Kukors, Andrew Gemmell, Laura Sogar, Nicolas Fink, Elizabeth Beisel, Doug Reynolds, and Melanie Margalis. 
Taormina interviews each athlete and analyzes underwater photos and race stroke data to break down their technique in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. From the catch through the curvilinear path and diagonal phase to the power-packed finish phase, Taormina explores the pull patterns to show how any swimmer can improve their own swimming. 
As Taormina shows in Swim Speed Strokes, the fastest technique for all four swimming strokes is remarkably similar. One-stroke swimmers will find big improvements in practicing the others, refining their feel for the water, coordination, and stroke efficiency. Whether you want to master every stroke or simply improve on your best one, Swim Speed Strokes will show you how to become the strongest swimmer you can be.

Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes: Master Freestyle, Butterfly, Breaststroke and Backstroke for Your Fastest Swimming (Swim Speed Series)

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Exercise & Fitness

Sheila Taormina’s Swim Speed Series is America’s favorite guide to faster swimming.
In this new edition of the best-selling Swim Speed Secrets, the 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion reveals the swim technique used by the world’s fastest swimmers.Taormina’s guidance is clear and easily understood so any swimmer or triathlete can learn and master the fastest way to swim.
Over the course of four Olympic Games and throughout her career as a world champion triathlete, Taormina refined her winning technique through a close study of the sport, examining the world’s best swimmers using underwater photographs, video analysis, and historical archives. From Johnny Weissmuller to Michael Phelps, Taormina found that the world’s fastest swimmers share two common elements: high stroke rate and a high-elbow underwater pull.
Though she stands just 5’ 2” tall, Taormina honed her swimming technique to victory and shares her Swim Speed method in Swim Speed Secrets. Many swimmers and triathletes neglect the underwater pull, distracted by low stroke count or perfecting less critical details like body position, streamlining, and roll. Swim Speed Secrets,2nd Ed. focuses on the most crucial element of swimming―producing power―to help swimmers and triathletes overhaul their swim stroke and find the speed that’s been eluding them.
With a commonsense approach that comes from decades of intense practice and hands-on coaching experience, Taormina shows swimmers how to transition to faster swimming. 
Featuring 4 completely new speed secrets, new drills, and an all-new chapter, Swim Speed Secrets offers Taormina’s essential guidance and new discoveries that are vital for swimmers, triathletes, and coaches:
· Crystal-clear photographs and descriptions of the underwater freestyle stroke.
· New elite swimmers: Step-by-step breakdowns of the strokes of the world’s fastest swimmers including Peter Vanderkaay, Allison Schmitt, Jack Conger, Margaret Kelly, Townley Haas, and more. 
· New levels of detail on the stroke path, stroke timing, hand speed change, and over-water recovery.
· NEW! Undeniable, real-world visual proof of the curvilinear, or S-curve, stroke path in elite swimmer strokes using Taormina’s patent pending grid analysis tool.
· NEW! A simplified guide to stroke rate and “gears” to guide every swimming workout.
· New drills to cultivate a sensitive, faster, and more effective feel for the water.
· Dryland and strength building exercises to develop arm position and upper body musculature.
Sheila Taormina’s Swim Speed Secrets blows up the old myths that have held swimmers back. Her best-selling Swim Speed Series―including Swim Speed Secrets, Swim Speed Strokes, and Swim Speed Workouts―brings the focus back where it belongs: to a powerful freestyle swim stroke. With Taormina’s method, triathletes and swimmers can stop swimming for survival and break through to new levels of swimming speed and confidence in the water.

Swim Speed Secrets: Master the Freestyle Technique Used by the World's Fastest Swimmers, 2nd Edition (Swim Speed Series)

Swim Speed Workouts is a deck of waterproof swim workout cards, drills, and dryland exercises that are carefully designed to develop the world’s fastest freestyle swimming technique. 
In this updated edition, 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world Sheila Taormina provides the essential instruction, workouts, drills, and training plan to take your freestyle swimming speed to a whole new level. Swim Speed Workouts applies the principles of Taormina’s best-selling Swim Speed Secrets, so swimmers and triathletes can get in the pool and get fast. 
With new drills, more technique instruction, and additional coaching tips, the updated Swim Speed Workouts draws from Taormina’s own 30-year racing and coaching career to offer a meticulously designed program that will build your freestyle speed one crucial step at a time. 
Over 16 weeks, you’ll enjoy challenging, fun, dynamic workouts that perfect the essential elements of world-class swim technique. Each waterproof workout card reveals the Olympic-level swimming drills, kick sets, and drylands that develop speed in the world’s fastest swimmers. You will improve your stroke and speed by mastering key elements such as hand entry, hand speed, high-elbow catch, underwater pull, stroke finish, core drive, and propulsive kick.
Swim Speed Workouts unlocks the secrets to swimming performance, building up swimmers and triathletes to breakthrough swim speed.
Also available from VeloPress: Try out a free download of the first week of workouts and see video demos of the program’s swimming drills.

Swim Speed : Les secrets de la vitesse en natation

Miscellaneous

TALENT SPORT

Kraul, Schmetterling, Rücken, Brust: Die Geheimnisse der Topschwimmer

Spomedis GmbH

En su anterior libro Natación. Los secretos para nadar más rápido, la nadadora olímpica y medalla de oro Sheila Taormina dio a conocer la técnica de crol utilizada por los nadadores más rápidos del mundo. Sus lectores avalaron con la mejora en sus tiempos la efi cacia de esa técnica. Ahora, en Nadar más rápido en todos los estilos, Sheila Taormina muestra a nadadores y triatletas cómo alcanzar su máxima velocidad al nadar en los cuatro estilos: mariposa, espalda, braza y crol. Con fotografías claras como el agua y su estilo entusiasta y directo, la ahora entrenadora Sheila Taormina explica la ciencia que subyace a la potencia y la velocidad en el agua, analiza los elementos que tienen en común los cuatro estilos y examina la técnica de cada uno. Nadar más rápido en todos los estilos incluye fotografías de nadadores de élite, como Peter Vanderkaay, Rebecca Soni, Aaron Peirsol, Rowdy Gaines y muchos otros. Imágenes tomadas sobre y bajo el agua que desvelan la técnica ganadora que ha llevado a estos atletas a lo más alto de este deporte. Tanto si quieres dominar los cuatro estilos, como si quieres mejorar en uno de ellos, Nadar más rápido en todos los estilos te hará el nadador más fuerte que puedas llegar a ser. SHEILA TAORMINA ha competido en cuatro ediciones de los Juegos Olímpicos en tres deportes distintos: natación, triatlón y pentatlón moderno. Su excepcional técnica de crol la llevó a ganar una medalla de oro en los JJ. OO. de 1996 y el Campeonato Mundial de Triatlon ITU en 2004. Ha entrenado a nadadores de élite y triatletas durante más de 15 años y cada año realiza docenas de clinics de natación por todo el mundo. En esta misma editorial ha publicado Natación. Los secretos para nadar más rápido.

Nadar más rápido en todos los estilos: Para nadadores y triatletas

Water Sports

Ediciones Tutor, S.A.

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Swim Speed Secrets for Swimmers and Triathletes: Master the Freestyle Technique Used by the World's Fastest Swimmers (Swim Speed Series)

Swim Speed Workouts for Swimmers and Triathletes: The Breakout Plan for Your Fastest Freestyle (Swim Speed Series)

Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes: Master Freestyle, Butterfly, Breaststroke and Backstroke for Your Fastest Swimming (Swim Speed Series)

Swim Speed Secrets: Master the Freestyle Technique Used by the World's Fastest Swimmers, 2nd Edition (Swim Speed Series)

Swim Speed Workouts for Swimmers and Triathletes: The Breakout Plan for Your Fastest Freestyle (Swim Speed Series)

Swim Speed : Les secrets de la vitesse en natation

Kraul, Schmetterling, Rücken, Brust: Die Geheimnisse der Topschwimmer

Nadar más rápido en todos los estilos: Para nadadores y triatletas