Swimming / David L. Costill, Ernest W. Maglischo, Allen B. Richardson.
By: Costill, David L.
Contributor(s): Maglischo, Ernest W | Richardson, Allen B.
Material type: BookSeries: Handbook of sports medicine and science.Publisher: Boston : Champaign, Ill. : Blackwell Scientific Publications, Human Kinetics [distributor], 1991Description: vii, 214 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0632030275.Subject(s): Swimming -- Physiological aspects | Swimming -- TrainingDDC classification: 612.044Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 612.044 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00022711 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Written by a sports scientist, a coach and a physician, Swimming is the broadest work yet written in this field for sports science and sports medicine alike. The text is authored by a team with outstanding credentials in terms of personal experience as competitive swimmers, in research productivity, coaching success, and the medical care of high performance swimmers and swimming teams. Swimming has been written primarily for athletics trainers and team coaches but is also intended as a specialist reference for doctors, allied health professionals and for athletes themselves. Chapters cover the characteristics of swimming including important concepts in propulsion, functional anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, biomechanics and psychology. Also included are the principles and aims of nutrition, injury including risks, mechanisms of injury, prevention, immediate care, treatment, rehabilitation and return to training.
Includes index.
Section 1 Biology of swimming: Characteristics of muscle -- Energy for swimming -- Fatigue: factors limiting swimming performance -- Age and gender differences -- Nutritional needs of the swimmer -- Section 2 Mechanical aspects of swimming: Propulsion and resistance -- Front crawl -- Butterfly -- Backstroke -- Breaststroke -- Starts and turns -- Section 3 Training: Adaptations to swimming training -- Principles of training -- A training plan -- Training for specific events -- Training for strength and power -- Section 4 Testing and medical aspects of swimming: Physiological evaluation -- Biomechanical evaluation -- Medical aspects of swimming.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Section 1 Biology of swimming
- Characteristics of muscle
- Energy for swimming
- Fatigue: factors limiting swimming performance
- Age and gender differences
- Nutritional needs of the swimmer
- Section 2 Mechanical aspects of swimming
- Propulsion and resistance
- Front crawl stroke
- Butterfly
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Starts and turns
- Section 3 Training
- Adaptations to swimming training
- Principles of training
- A training plan
- Training for specific events
- Training for strength and power
- Section 4 Testing and medical aspects of swimming
- Physiological evaluation
- Biomechanical evaluation
- Medical aspects of swimming
- Appendices
- Blood lactate analysis
- Calculation of oxygen uptake
- Procedures for hydrostatic weighing