Swimming Even Faster

Sure a lot of this stuff has cleaner and more fancy educational delivery in other media, but I love having this book and all its info in one spot. Tough to read due to depth, but that’s kind of why coaches but this book…

THE book.

As all of Maglischo's books it's amazing. An indispensable reference for advanced swim coaches. But the copy i bought is used and it's a bit worn with some writings on it.

Technical, comprehensive. The first half of the book is extensive coverage of training physiology. The second half covers stroke mechanics.

If you want a text book for swimming this is it!

I'm primarily a rower, so I can't speak about the swimming-specific sections of this book. But I can rave about the more generally applicable sections. I've used this book for several years to design training programs for various rowing events, from 500 meters (about 1.5-2 minutes) to 2,000 meters (about 7-8 minutes) to head races (20 minutes and longer). Maglischo's explanations of how to balance the levels of effort in a training program for sprint or endurance events is tremendously helpful, as are the explanations of how to periodize training programs and create daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly programs.The only tiny criticism I have of this book is that I would find it slightly more useful if the swimming distances included approximate times for the events. That way, it would make transferring the principles to comparable events in different sports more straightforward.I recommend this book to any coach or athlete of any racing sport. You'll find not only physiological issues addressed, but also issues concerning pacing and race strategy -- a must for anyone desiring an internal focus during racing.

There are approximately 10 "swimming nations'. US along with Japan, Hungary, Australia, UK and Sweden is one of these nations that have a rich swimming tradition and continuous participation in Olympic swimming events since the 1896 Olympics. Professor Maglischo comes out of this rich US tradition. This book is without any doubt the best ever written on the sport. For all of us that read and collect swimming books it is not strange that Prof. Maglischo wrote this magnificent book. The first edition of Swimming Even Faster (Swimming Faster 1982) was a best seller for almost 11 years and it was the best swimming book ever written before this edition appeared. I hope that prof. Maglischo will prepare for us the next edition of this one.

I wanted a book that had more technical detail, but this book was so technical that I couldn't understand it and couldn't translate the information to something usable in the pool.

All products as expected and received on time. Very good.

Great service and quality product.