Breakthrough Swimming
By Cecil Colwin

In Breakthrough Swimming, legendary swimming coach and researcher Cecil Colwin provides a rich perspective on the development of the sport and explains major advances in stroke mechanics, training methods, and racing techniques.

Swimming Drills for Every Stroke
By Ruben J. Guzman

Swimming coach Ruben Guzman offers this tool kit for developing effective stroke technique that features 91 drills covering all strokes, as well as turns and finishes for each stroke. 9 photos, 218 illustrations. Basic book for beginning swimmers.

The Ultimate Guide To Weight Training For Swimming
Rob Price

he Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Swimming is the most comprehensive and up-to-date swimming-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round swimming-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

Complete Conditioning for Swimming (Complete Conditioning for Sports Series)
By David Salo and Scott Riewald

From more powerful strokes to quicker turns, propel yourself to improved times with Complete Conditioning for Swimming. This multidimensional training program uses fitness assessments to tailor strength, endurance, and flexibility exercises to each swimmer's individual needs. In addition, the 80-minute DVD takes you to the pool and into the gym to demonstrate the drills and exercises used by the sport's elite.

Swimming Fastest
By Ernest W. Maglischo

Put science to work for you in the pool to swim stronger and faster than ever! Swimming Fastest is a fully revised and updated version of Swimming Faster, widely considered by coaches and swimmers as one of the best books ever written on competitive swimming.

The Swim Coaching Bible
By Dick Hannula and Nort Thornton

Put science to work for you in the pool to swim stronger and faster than ever! Swimming Fastest is a fully revised and updated version of Swimming Faster, widely considered by coaches and swimmers as one of the best books ever written on competitive swimming.

Coaching Swimming Successfully
By Dick Hannula

Coaching great Dick Hannula discusses developing a philosophy, planning for the season and preparing for practices, teaching competitive strokes, maximizing meet preparation and performance, and more.

Total Immersion
If you think fastest way to better swimming is more laps, you're wasting your breath, literally. Now you can swim better -- and enjoy it more -- using simple and original techniques developed by veteran swim coach and top-ranked Masters swimmer Terry Laughlin.

Michael Phelps: Beneath the Surface
by Michael Phelps, Brian Cazeneuve

Michael Phelps: Beneath the Surface is a first-person account of Michael's journey to manhood and Olympic glory—from a toddler who was afraid to put his face in the water to a student overcoming an attention deficit disorder to a son dealing with his parents’ divorce to a brother who watched an older sister narrowly miss making the Olympic team to the athlete who carried his nation’s hopes on his shoulders in Athens, and delivered against such high expectations.

Gold in the Water
By P.H. Mullen Jr.

Olympic fans undoubtedly remember the wonderful performances of the U.S. swimmers at the 2000 Olympics in Australia. What viewers may not fully understand is the grueling training endured by a larger group of swimmers who trained for other meets leading up to the trials and Olympic competition. Mullen focuses on the Santa Clara Swim Club, two athletes Tom Wilkens and Kurt Grote and their coach, Dick Jochums. The author provides an intimate look at the physical training along with the emotional and psychological roller-coaster ride for the swimmers as they try to make the Olympic team.

Fast Lane to Victory
By Ruben J. Guzman

This book about Jenny Thompson describes the young athlete's development as a swimmer and the personal qualities that helped to make her an Olympic champion.