Master The Art Of Swimming

Author : Steven Shaw
Publisher : Collins & Brown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781910231555

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Master the Art of Swimming by Steven Shaw Pdf

Swimming improves your flexibility, tones your body and can help to boost your self-esteem and produce a sense of well being. It is the nation's most popular sporting activity with 11.9 million people swimming regularly. However, most people don't know how to swim properly. This book is based on a 35-year voyage of discovery into the art of swimming. Steven Shaw's method takes the Alexander Technique into the swimming pool – focusing on releasing tension from the head, neck and back. Steven has evolved a unique way of breaking down strokes into a series of therapeutic movements, which can be practised individually or with a partner, in a pool or on dry land. These provide the building blocks, which combine to make it possible for anyone to recraft their own strokes in a way that promote good body use and avoid injuries. Instead of performing physical actions in an automatic way, you begin to learn body awareness. This way of swimming not only feels freer and more open, it is graceful and has a sense of flow, often absent from the way many people swim. Shaw looks at the most popular strokes – front crawl, back stroke, breast stroke and butterfly – focusing on maximum efficiency and minimum strain.

Author : Melchisédec Thévenot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11686301

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The Art of Swimming by Melchisédec Thévenot Pdf

Author : Steven Shaw
Publisher : Collins & Brown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1910231843

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The Art of Swimming by Steven Shaw Pdf

Based on a 35-year voyage of discovery into the art of swimming, this work looks at the most popular strokes - front crawl, back stroke, breast stroke and butterfly - focusing on maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Swimming improves your flexibility, tones your body and can help to boost your self-esteem and produce a sense of well being. It is the nation's most popular sporting activity with 11.9 million people swimming regularly. However, most people don't know how to swim properly. Steven Shaw's method takes the Alexander Technique into the swimming pool – focusing on releasing tension from the head, neck and back. Steven has evolved a unique way of breaking down strokes into a series of therapeutic movements, which can be practised individually or with a partner, in a pool or on dry land. These provide the building blocks, which combine to make it possible for anyone to recraft their own strokes in a way that promote good body use and avoid injuries. Instead of performing physical actions in an automatic way, you begin to learn body awareness. This way of swimming not only feels freer and more open, it is graceful and has a sense of flow, often absent from the way many people swim.

Author : Steven Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Alexander technique
ISBN : OCLC:1391163619

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The Art of Swimming by Steven Shaw Pdf

Author : Terry Laughlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781451688337

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Total Immersion by Terry Laughlin Pdf

Swim better—and enjoy every lap—with Total Immersion, a guide to improving your swimming from an expert with more than thirty years of experience in the water. Terry Laughlin, the world’s #1 authority on swimming success, has made his unique approach even easier for anyone to master. Whether you’re an accomplished swimmer or have always found swimming to be a struggle, Total Immersion will show you that it’s mindful fluid movement—not athletic ability—that will turn you into an efficient swimmer. This new edition of the bestselling Total Immersion features: -A thoughtfully choreographed series of skill drills—practiced in the mindful spirit of yoga—that can help anyone swim more enjoyably -A holistic approach to becoming one with the water and to developing a swimming style that’s always comfortable -Simple but thorough guidance on how to improve fitness and form -A complementary land-and-water program for achieving a strong and supple body at any age Based on more than thirty years of teaching, coaching, and research, Total Immersion has dramatically improved the physical and mental experience of swimming for thousands of people of all ages and abilities.

Author : Claire Fuller
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487002169

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Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller Pdf

From Desmond Elliot Prize winner Claire Fuller comes a family mystery about a woman’s disappearance and her daughter’s search for answers. In this spine-tingling tale Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but she never sends them. Instead she hides them within the thousands of books her husband has collected. After she writes her final letter, Ingrid disappears. Twelve years later, her adult daughter, Flora comes home to look after her injured father. Secretly, Flora has never believed her mother is dead, and she starts asking questions, without realizing that the answers she’s looking for are hidden in the books that surround her.

Author : Matthew Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Long distance swimming
ISBN : BL:A0026217676

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The Art of Swimming by Matthew Webb Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Swimming
ISBN : BL:A0020646980

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The Whole Art of Swimming by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melchisedech THEVENOT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1764
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022484688

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The Art of Swimming. Illustrated by Forty Proper Copper-plate Cuts ... The Second Edition. MS. Notes by Melchisedech THEVENOT Pdf

Author : John M. McManamon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004446199

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"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving by John M. McManamon Pdf

In "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving, John McManamon documents the revival of interest in swimming during the European Renaissance and its conceptualization as an art. Renaissance scholars realized that the ancients considered one truly ignorant who knew “neither letters nor swimming.”

Author : Sheila Taormina
Publisher : VeloPress
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781937716172

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Swim Speed Secrets for Swimmers and Triathletes by Sheila Taormina Pdf

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: The best drills to cultivate a more sensitive feel for the water Dryland and strength building exercises to develop arm position and upper body musculature Crisp photos of Olympic swimmers and variations in their high-elbow underwater pull Clear descriptions of the key moments of the underwater pull Tips that helped her perform at a world-class level for two decades 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.

Author : Malcolm Balk
Publisher : Collins & Brown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781910231593

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Master the Art of Working Out by Malcolm Balk Pdf

Although gym membership is on the increase, the way people actually exercise in the gym is rarely correct and frequently causes injury. Activities that should be pleasurable and fulfilling often end up being frustrating, can cause injury or are simply regarded as boring. Often the desired effects are not achieved due to bad technique. 'Master the Art of Working Out' teaches us how to approach our gym workout in a new and refreshing way. We are encouraged to look at working out as an art rather than just a means to an end. Balk and Shields have developed a way of improving a gym workout using the principles of the Alexander Technique. This simple method promotes coordination, balance, posture, the importance of the relationship between the head neck and back, body awareness and efficient body use. The book teaches that if you focus on what you are doing and all these things are done properly, then the workout will achieve the desired effect. The author look at all aspects of gym exercise including resistance training, using gym machines, fitness classes including aerobics, step, pilates, yoga and Tai chi. The book has illustrations showing the wrong and right technique.

Author : George Saunders
Publisher : Random House
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781984856043

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

Author : Webb (Captain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Swimming
ISBN : OCLC:25639492

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The Art of Swimming by Webb (Captain) Pdf

Author : Melchisedech THEVENOT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1764
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024333893

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The Art of Swimming. Illustrated by Forty Proper Copper-plate Cuts, which Represent the Different Postures Necessary to be Used in that Art. With Advice for Bathing ... To which is Prefixed a Prefatory Discourse Concerning Artificial Swimming ... The Second Edition by Melchisedech THEVENOT Pdf