Swimming.

Swimming.

The long awaited new edition of Swimming updates the highly successful first edition edited by Costill, Maglishco and Richardson which was published in the early 1990s. The Second Edition contains less material on how to swim and more on the physics of swimming. It contains information on the latest...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stager, Joel
Other Authors: Tanner, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Olympic Handbook of Sports Medicine.
Subjects:
Swimming > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Swimming
Handbooks and manuals
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science Swimming; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword by the IOC; Foreword by FINA; Preface; 1 Energy systems; 2 Central adaptations: heart, blood, and lung; 3 Peripheral adaptations: the skeletal muscles; 4 The mechanics of swimming; 5 Resistance and propulsion; 6 Psychology; 7 Medical issues related to swimming; 8 Training and testing of competitive swimmer; Index.

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