Swim to the Top

by Wright, David; Gilmour, Garth

• ISBN13: 9781841260839
• ISBN10: 1841260835
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

Summary

New Zealand swimming coach David Wright sought the help of running gururthur Lydiard to gain better results. He had already used Lydiard'sndurance training schedules while living and working in England to establishis wife, Alison, as one of New Zealand's premier middle-distance runners,nd wondered how Lydiard's methods could be applied in the swimming pool. Forearly a decade, Wright and Lydiard, collaborating every week, experimentedith the conversion of long-distance aerobic endurance training, hill running,ounding and springing, steps running and sprint sharpening from the variederrains that a runner encounters to the confines of a swimming pool's still,lat water. This volume presents the method they have developed, and isesigned for all swimmers, beginners and advanced, who are looking for neways in swimming training.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(7)
Introduction	7	(7)
Have a Plan - or Plan to Fail	14	(6)
Control the Plan - or Waste It	20	(2)
Get Back in - How to Start	22	(1)
Build Miles to Build Champions	23	(11)
Transition	34	(1)
Anaerobic - Festina Lente	35	(5)
Trials and Coordination - Fresh and Sharp	40	(13)
Drills - Practice Makes Perfect	53	(7)
Medical Matters - Dr. Who	60	(6)
Sports Psychologists	66	(2)
Weights - Life's Too Short to Be Small	68	(17)
Diet - as Fat as a Pig	85	(4)
Women's Swimming - All Men Are Created Equal	89	(3)
The Junior Swimmer	92	(4)
Teenage Dropouts	96	(3)
Technique - Different Stroke for Different Folks	99	(8)
Win Some, Lose Some	107	(4)
Overseas Competition	111	(6)
The Coach - Valet or God	117	(8)
Gold Medals and Egg Shells	125	(1)
Beware the Golden Needles	126	(2)
Barcelona and the Personal Coach	128	(4)
Photo & Illustration Credits	132