Do you swim laps for your health or competition? If yes, then this 85 page book will explain how to construct specificity workouts to train and condition your body. Physics and psychology of learning principles are applied to improve your knowledge, technique, efficiency, and pace to conserve your energy. Training methods such as interval and mental skills training for sprints, middle distance and distance events, goal setting, and workout logs provide more knowledge to enhance your skills and compete at an advanced level. Before you start you are advised to get checked out by your physician to handle any progressively increased workloads and let your body adapt to the stress. You will learn how to monitor your cardiovascular condition with heart rate checks during workouts.Use of various types of equipment like goggles, pull-buoys, hand paddles, and drag suits help you decide what works best for your training goals. Using your goggles you will learn self-correction skills applied to your visual, verbal, and kinesthetic or feeling cues with advanced floating and body streamlining skills to increase your propulsion. The benefit is that you don't have to pay for private coaching lessons, and can continually monitor your personal improvement in less time learning how to teach and coach yourself.
About the Author: Dr. Pete Andersen is a leading authority and expert in drowning prevention and swimming instruction. All his content is based on never out-of-date physics and psychology of learning principles, and statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA. His "Teach Yourself To Swim" book, book series, and videos is being called the new science of swimming instruction. Dr. Pete introduces and demonstrates six new teaching methods and correct visual, verbal, and kinesthetic cues (feeling the water pressure) that are proven to get faster longer-lasting results. His unique system of easy-to-master one-minute steps any healthy person can learn to swim in only a few hours when they follow and master the sequence. He is the only instructor in the world with a Ph.D. in psychology of learning physical skills principles applied to swimming. His mission is to save more lives by making his books and DVDs affordable, easy to read, and start learning to swim at home without a pool. The content helps families who live in rural and low income urban and suburban areas with several children where there is no pool or experienced instructors. He has taught 1000's to swim and 100's to be quality instructors. He regularly teaches an adult non-swimmer to swim in one hour, and has been known to teach people to swim on the phone by altering their mindset and building their confidence. Dr. Pete was a 5-time All-American at Indiana University and currently holds Masters Swimming World and National Records, and has 21 Senior Olympic Summer Games Gold Medals. In 2008 he retired as a K-12 school superintendent, owns Trius Publishing and Sports Advisor Features new syndicate, and is a behaviorist, author, coach, speaker, and publisher. How-to picture sequences and brief descriptions make this a book/DVD series a must have for a home library reference resource to learn and protect their family from unintentional drowning. Keywords: Learn To Swim, Swim Lessons, Teach Yourself To Swim, Water Safety, Swimming, Beginning Swimming, New Science of Swimming Instruction