> Skip to content
  • Published: 15 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781578266821
  • Imprint: Hatherleigh Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $35.00

The Swimmer's Workout Handbook

Improve Fitness with 100 Swim Workouts and Drills



The Swimmer's Workout Handbook is the comprehensive guide to fulfilling your fitness goals through swimming. The best program combines consistent endurance and strength training with sport-specific skill training and The Swimmer's Workout Handbook approach emphasizes this and more including recovery and periodization. The workout programs target specific goals such as swimming for fitness or training in open water and provides easy-to-follow programs divided weekly and by level (beginner, intermediate, advanced). Training tips and expert notes are included as well as a training journal where you can log your progress.

100 of the best swim workouts for all experience levels: fitness, Masters level, or competition. Easy-to-follow pool workouts designed to make you a stronger, faster, and more proficient swimmer.

The Swimmer’s Workout Handbook is a complete guide to escaping the routine of pool swimming with varied training workouts to keep you challenged and engaged, and improve your performance.

Expert and multi-sport coach Terri Schneider combines skill training with variations in speed, distance, and technique for an effective and easy-to-follow series of pool workouts designed to make you a stronger, faster, and more proficient swimmer.

The Swimmer’s Workout Handbook includes:
·         100 swim workouts for all experience levels
·         Expert-designed pool workouts
·         A guide to common swim terms used in the workouts
·         Information on gear and guidelines to get the most out of your workouts

Swimming improves core, muscular, and cardiovascular strength and endurance, all in a low-impact, gravity-free workout. If done two to several times per week, or as an addition to a multi-sport training regime, swimming helps maintain a healthy weight, heart, and lungs. These benefits are best realized within the diversity of your workouts.

To increase your swim fitness it is optimal to vary intensity, interval distances, recovery, and strokes, all within one workout session. The diversity within a workout is what triggers the body to grow stronger, faster, and more proficient.

Whether you only have time to swim 1000 meters/yards, or are up for 5000 at each session, The Swimmer’s Workout Handbook organizes speed, distance, and technique into these 100 fun and challenging training sessions—putting vitality back into your pool time.

  • Published: 15 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781578266821
  • Imprint: Hatherleigh Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $35.00

Also by Terri Schneider

See all