Fundamentals of Fast Swimming: How to Improve Your Swim Technique

The book is really informative and provides a great amount of technical information in simple easy to understand writing. The only negative I have is the pictures are in black in white and not very clear.

Very clearly written and based on thorough analysis using The Race Clubl's cutting edge tech. I am a Masters swimmer who learned my technique in the 70's and 80's and this book has opened my eyes to some opportunities to get faster through technical adjustments. The book contradicts some of my long-held, old-fashioned beliefs about how best to swim and has provided many ways to improve my technique - I feel I am swimming better from having the changes to my stroke. I am yet to race since making the changes but my training times, especially on sprints, have come down. The links in the book to video material are very useful.

This is an amazing book that every coach, swimmer and keen parent should read. Gary Hall Senior has written the book using an evidence based scientific approach as expected by a medical doctor. It covers all aspects of swimming (four strokes, dolphin kicking, starts and turns). The description is clear and detailed and the most common swimming mistakes are highlighted. Several drills are also proposed to correct the different aspects of swimming.The only weakness of the book is that it is printed (at least the UK version) in a cheap paper with low resolution with and black pictures. Despite this, I still highly recommend the book and give it 5 stars.

Education mainly. Excellent book written by a legend on swimming community.

Fast delivery and book arrived in excellent condition.

Offre molti spunti interessanti di tecnica dei vari stili di nuoto dal punto di vista della pratica del nuoto competitivo. Peccato ci sia un indice senza il numero delle pagine corrispondenti ai capitoli

Using speed, acceleration and force sensing technology, synchronized to video, the authors rigorously analise drag, propulsion and technique in milisecond resolution. The drawn conclusions provide insights that can be translated to my own swimming.Just by reading the book I dropped my 25m during practice by one second from 15 to 14 seconds.I will keep focusing one nuisance at a time following the insights in the book hoping to improve further.I do have a solid background in physics, which makes understanding the concepts in the book easier. While the authors do previous the required intuition this book might not be for everyone as it is quite technical. I would recommend reading the sample to see if it is for you.Highly recommend for any swimmer with some understanding in physics or a little more technical approach.

Product in excellent condition, can't say its used if you dont know it beforehand,delivery was excellent as well

The author has illustrated extremely good technique for each stroke. I appreciate the good recommendation on the flexibility exercises for the ankle. It will be more complete if the book can give more illustration on drills to improve technique, guide on planning training programme and exercises to prevent swimming related injuries.