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How To Swim: Learn to Swim Stronger, Faster & with Expert Technique
By Chase Watson
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The essential 'How To Swim' guide will take you from swimming novice to professional in a matter of weeks & from professional to master in the same time. Locate your current swimming level through this book - and catapult yourself to the next level.
Get familiar with the drills that make your form & stroke action right, and increase your speed and endurance in the pool. Learn to eradicate the aspects of your swimming action that have been slowing you down. Learn how the professionals swim stronger, faster and with expert technique.
Teach these techniques and tips to yourself, to your kids or anyone you know wants to better their form in the pool.
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How To Swim - Chase Watson
How To Swim
Chase Watson
Copyright 2016 Chase Watson
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Contents
Introduction: How To Swim
Chapter One: Learning to float: The Swimmer's Technique
Chapter Two: The Freestyle (also known as Front Crawl)
Chapter Three: Butterfly Swimming
Chapter Four: Backstroke
Chapter Five: Breaststroke
Chapter Six: Forget breathing in - it's time to breathe out
How To Swim Faster
Chapter Eight: The Stretch Before The Swim
Other Titles from Chase Watson
Introduction
So you want to be a better swimmer? You've gone out of your way to search the right information? You've gotten your hands on it. Now it's your job to consume it; digest it; let it become a part of you. You will be amazed at the level of progress you will see in yourself in a very short space of time given you put into action every step outlined in this guide.
Find out the techniques the professionals use to make them distinguished swimmers in the pool and learn what tips will improve your strength, form and speed in the pool. Whatever level you're at, if you transfer the skills provided in this book into your swimming, one thing's for sure, when you enter the pool, you'll feel the way Olympians feel; move the way champions move and swim the way professionals swim. Now let's get into the pool!
Learning to float: The Swimmer's Technique
The inability to float has often been at the centre of all swimming difficulties for most inexperienced or untrained swimmers. Whether you are just starting out or you know the pool well, the following tips will get you headed steadily in the right direction.
Now, whatever the reason
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