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| View Larger Image | Open Water Swimming
by Penny Lee Dean
| | List Price: | $21.95 | | Price: | $16.46 | | You Save: | $5.49 (25%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 259975 | | Studio: | Human Kinetics Publishers | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 222 | | Publication Date: | December 31, 1969 | | Publisher: | Human Kinetics Publishers |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Author Penny Lee Dean, a swimming legend and world-record holder in 13 events, shares her unique knowledge of racing and solo swims in Open Water Swimming. From innovative stroke techniques to navigation strategies, Dean’s insights are invaluable to long-distance swimmers, marathon swimmers, triathletes, and their coaches. Open Water Swimming features • 13 stretches for increased flexibility and smooth stroke technique, • 16 practice drills for improved form, and • 43 different workouts for greater endurance. Whether you’re a beginner-level open water swimmer or you’re about to brave the English Channel—which Dean swam in world-record time—Open Water Swimming provides the conditioning plans, event profiles, and mental training techniques you need to succeed. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 8 reviews)
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Open water coach 
I used the book to prepare for my first open water 2,000 metre race off the beach last year. Its well written, interesting, full of tips and easy to read - it certainly helped me become a better and more confident open water swimming and would recommend it to all us amateur open water enthusiasts!
September 26, 2008 | |
Useful for the beginner open water swimmer 
I started Open Water Swimming two years and quickly came across this book in my hunt for more information. At the time I found this to be helpful in some areas, given the almost complete lack of information on Open Water.
It may be more helpful to Tri-athletes but in retrospect with a few years long distance swimming behind me, but I think that it is somewhat shallow, no pun intended.
At the time of reading, I was starting swimming and training by myself (and still am mostly),and many of my questions were about how to move up from 1/2 mile to mile pool swims to longer sea distances. I did not find this particularly useful in this regard and I thought it's section on training was too brief, with too much emphasis on stroke.
For the specifics of Open Water swimming it meeds more emphasis on training plans & recovery, acclimatisation and habituation, goal-setting, and more specific information on some of the features of river and open sea, (jellies, flora & fauna, currents, surface topography, weather, course setting, etc).
September 10, 2008 | |
GREAT INFORMATION
This book really helped me and my open water swim friends with our races. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in open water swimming.
September 17, 2007 | |
Open Water Swimming
I am a distance ocean swimmer and found the book to be very helpful. Penny Dean is a legend in Channel Swimming and writes from experience. I used many of her training recommendations in preparing for the Catalina Channel and am using it again in my preparation for the English Channel. This book is very well regarded by multiple friends who are Channel Swimmers. I think highly enough of the book to be buying a second copy because my original copy was loaned to someone who has not yet returned it.
November 04, 2006 | |
Triathlete Review 
Although I thought the book to be well written and interesting, it offers minimal techniques and workouts for the triathlete. Not being a long distance swimmer, I can not judge the book from that point of view.
September 05, 2005 | |
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