4-Time Olympian Launches Swimming Workout Book – Swim Speed Workouts

In her best-selling book Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion Sheila Taormina revealed the swimming technique used by the world’s fastest swimmers. Now her new waterproof book Swim Speed Workouts for Swimmers and Triathletes provides the essential swimming instruction, workouts, drills, and training plan to build all-new levels of freestyle swimming speed.

Taormina’s Swim Speed Workouts program will develop the world’s fastest way to swim in swimmers and triathletes. Swimmers will get in the pool and get fast. Swim Speed Workouts is now available in bookstores, triathlon and swimming shops, and online. Learn about the Swim Speed program and try the first six workouts at www.swimspeedsecrets.com.

Drawing from her 30-year racing and coaching career, Taormina’s Swim Speed program is carefully designed to build freestyle swimming speed one crucial step at a time. Over 16 weeks, swimmers and triathletes will swim high-impact workouts to build the critical elements of the world’s fastest swimming technique. Each waterproof workout card incorporates the swimming drills, kick sets, and drylands that develop speed in the world’s fastest swimmers. Swimmers will refine their freestyle with the most effective hand entry, high-elbow catch, underwater pull, stroke finish, core drive, and propulsive kick. Once a week, swimmers will swim a “She-Ra” workout from Taormina’s own training diary to build superior swimming fitness during the program.

Swim Speed Secrets revealed the fastest way to swim. Now Swim Speed Workouts unlocks those secrets to swimming performance, building up swimmers and triathletes to breakthrough swim speed.

Swim Speed Workouts for Swimmers and Triathletes: The Breakout Plan for Your Fastest Freestyle

Sheila Taormina

5″ x 7″, 92 pp., $29.95, 9781937715014

Waterproof booklet, carrying case, and deck of 75 workout and drill cards.

Full-color interior and photographs throughout.

Sheila Taormina is an internationally recognized swimming coach and one of a handful of athletes who have competed in four Olympic games. She is the only woman in the world to have competed at the Olympics in three distinctly different sports-swimming, triathlon, and modern pentathlon. At just over 5′ 2″, Taormina refined her exceptional freestyle swim technique to win a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics and the 2004 ITU triathlon world championship. For 15 years, Taormina has coached elite and age-group swimmers and triathletes to develop the strong underwater pull that propelled her to athletic success in her racing career. Taormina conducts dozens of swim clinics around the world each year. For more information, please visit www.sheilat.com.

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vincent
8 years ago

this is good idia

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