Synopses & Reviews
You wont find a more useful or durable swimming book. These waterproof pages are made to be used and abused on the pool deck, and the oversized flap will hold the workouts upright for easier viewing.
Thousands of swimmers and triathletes have used the original Workouts in a Binder® to strengthen their strokes and improve their times. Now Nick and Eric Hansen deliver 100 new workouts that incorporate a full range of strokes, drills, and skill building to help you develop more power, endurance, and speed. Athletes can choose between a standard “A workout” and a modified “B workout,” for those with less time or stamina.
Regardless of experience or ability, youll enjoy the variety packed into these pages and the six unique training plans that help you put it all together.
Nick Hansen holds a graduate degree in exercise physiology. He is a former U.S. National Team swimming coach, University of Wisconsin head coach, University of Arizona assistant coach, and the Loveland Masters team coach. Nick also served as an exercise physiologist at the University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine Clinic.
Eric Hansen has national and international experience as a member of the U.S. National Team as an athlete and coach. Currently he is the head mens and womens swimming coach at the University of Wisconsin. In 2004 he coached an athlete who won a gold medal and set a World Record at the Olympic Games. He was also the head coach for the 2003 Pan American Games and the 2002 Short Course World Champion ship. Eric holds a masters degree in exercise physiology from the University of Arizona and a bachelors degree from Iowa State University.
Synopsis
Written by two former coaches for the U.S. National Swim Team, "Workouts in a Binder for Swimmers, Triathletes, and Coaches extends beyond freestyle to include other strokes for masters and collegiate swimmers and coaches, as well as triathletes seeking skill-building in the off-season. The workout categories, which are more diverse than "Swim Workouts for Triathletes (the previous book in this series), include distance, middle distance, sprint, individual medley, and stroke. Competitive swimmers and coaches can build a training plan using a variety of workouts from each category to improve speed and skills. Recreational swimmers, on the other hand, can realize new fitness levels by introducing greater variety to their swimming routines. Printed on large, durable cards, this new entry in the popular "Workouts in a Binder series was specially designed for swimmers to use at the pool and can be easily read, even through foggy googles and flip-turn splashback.
Synopsis
Swim Workouts for Triathletes, 2nd Ed. will help you develop real swimming speed. This waterproof book of 75 swim workouts provides the structure, variety, and drills triathletes need to become more efficient and faster swimmers. Each workout is designed around a specific goal—endurance, speed, form, muscular endurance, or anaerobic endurance—making it easy to prepare for events of different distances and improve all-around swimming skill.
Synopsis
It’s no secret: most triathletes are weak swimmers. Improving your swim will make you a faster, more confident triathlete, and you’ll enjoy your time in the water.
Swim Workouts for Triathletes, 2nd Ed. will help you develop real swimming speed. This waterproof book of 75 swim workouts provides the structure, variety, and drills triathletes need to become more efficient and faster swimmers. Each workout is designed around a specific goal—endurance, speed, form, muscular endurance, or anaerobic endurance—making it easy to prepare for events of different distances and improve all-around swimming skill.
Supplement your current training plan with these workouts or use one of the book's four swim training plans to prepare for triathlon's most popular swim distances. You’ll improve your efficiency and feel for the water with illustrated technique drills. New 30-minute workouts help slower swimmers or those with limited pool time get up to speed.
Swim Workouts for Triathletes means no more swimming in circles. Take this waterproof book to the pool with you, and you’ll be swimming real workouts that will make you a faster swimmer and a better triathlete.
Synopsis
It’s no secret: Most triathletes are weak swimmers. Improving your swim will make you a faster, more confident triathlete.
Swim Workouts for Triathletes features 80 swim workouts with the structure, variety, and drills you need to become a more efficient swimmer. Each workout is designed around a specific goal—endurance, speed, form, muscular endurance, or anaerobic endurance—making it easy to prepare for any race and improve all-around swimming skill.
You can use these workouts in your current training or begin one of the swim training plans inside. The new edition also includes:
- The 10 best drills for improved freestyle performance
- 30-minute sessions to fit a quality workout into a busy day
- Open-water workouts to get you race-ready
- Beginner & advanced workout sets to suit your ability or schedule
- 4 training plans for sprint, Olympic & half-Ironman®, Ironman®, and general fitness
Take Swim Workouts for Triathletes to the pool to help strengthen your swim and become a better triathlete.
Synopsis
This waterproof book of 100 swimming workouts offers swimmers and triathletes a wide variety of structured workouts to improve swimming fitness, technique, and speed. Using all four competitive swim strokes (freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly), swimmers and triathletes will strengthen more of their swimming muscles than by swimming freestyle alone.
Nationally recognized swimming coaches Nick and Eric Hansen offer 6 effective training plans to improve fitness and speed. Triathletes, masters, and collegiate swimmers will swim long-distance, middle-distance, sprint, IM, and stroke workouts to improve all swimming abilities.
Choose between a standard “A workout” and a modified “B workout,” for those with less time or stamina. Spiral bound and printed on durable, waterproof cards, these swim workouts are specially designed to be used and abused at the pool.
About the Author
Nick Hansen holds a graduate degree in exercise physiology. He is a former U.S. National Team swimming coach, University of Wisconsin head coach, University of Arizona assistant coach, and the Loveland Masters team coach. Nick also served as an exercise physiologist at the University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine Clinic.
Eric Hansen has national and international experience as a member of the U.S. National Team as an athlete and coach. Currently he is the head mens and womens swimming coach at the University of Wisconsin. In 2004 he coached an athlete who won a gold medal and set a World Record at the Olympic Games. He was also the head coach for the 2003 Pan American Games and the 2002 Short Course World Champion ship. Eric holds a masters degree in exercise physiology from the University of Arizona and a bachelors degree from Iowa State University.