Swimming Books

New and Published Books

1. Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis

   Edited by Tim McGarry, Peter O'Donoghue, Jaime Sampaio

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Coaching Cultures

   Edited by Neil Carter

   Coaches are amongst the most visible figures in sport today but little is known about the history of their profession. This book examines the history of coaching from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It uses a number of sports as case studies that includes: cricket,...

   Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
3. A Social History of Swimming in England, 1800 – 1918

   Splashing in the Serpentine

   Edited by Christopher Love

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing. Working from the beginnings of municipal recreational swimming,...

   Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge
4. Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming V1

   Edited by A. Lees, D. MacLaren, T. Reilly

   The International Symposium on Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming, held every four years under the aegis of the International Society of Biomechanics and the World Commission of Sports Biomechanics, provides a forum in which research related to swimming is reported and problems that confront...

   Published September 2nd 1992 by Taylor & Francis