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Get Fit:Swimming is the essential practical handbook that no new swimmer should be without. Whether you want to swim for pleasure or simply to get fir and lose weight, swimming offers you a great way to improve your level of health and well-being. Whatever your motivation, this handy pocket-sized book offers all the practical advice you need to get started, including: advice on buying the right kit; safety; developing your strokes; training programmes for all levels of fitness; nutrition and meal planner advice. Get Fit: Swimming provides you with a complete fitness and weight loss programme, suitable for beginners as well as anyone looking for an easy-to-follow exercise programme.
A longtime coach presents the keys to developing a successful program that will improve your swimming-and your health
Drowning By Accident explains why it is so easy to drown, where accidents happen, and how to save lives by early rescue and resuscitation. More than 600 people die by drowning in Britain every year. Swimming is promoted as a particularly safe form of exercise, so that swimmers forget or ignore the dangers of frigid lakes, swollen rivers, incoming tides or outgoing rip currents. Drowning accidents take place because we don't recognise water as a hostile environment. We overestimate the strength and endurance of our bodies and underestimate the power and deceptiveness of water. Year after year, victims lose their lives in typical drowning accidents, often sinking so quickly and silently that n...
The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations). The IOC, FIFA, IAAF and the FIA wield global influence, but how exactly do such complex organisations operate? This important book examines the rise of the SINGOs, their structures, organisational behaviour and their power in the context of modern sport and international politics. Written by two world-leading experts, the book sheds new light on the relationship between these SINGOs and the sports which they govern. It provides a close critical analysis of the policies and practices of the most important international sport organisations, from their historical origins to ...
Sports development has received considerable interest from social policymakers in recent years. This text is the first to systematically examine and review the outcomes of different sports development policies.
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Explains what happens to your body when you are swimming and how it benefits the body.
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