Book is filled with good information, training tips, technique and useful pictures explaining all the things in detail. I must admit, that I thought there can't be written 300 pages about freestyle swimming so, that every page would make sense, but I was so wrong. They have a Swim Smooth named swimming training center in Australia and very useful web page also about swimming. Swim Smooth is book by Paul Newsome and Adam Young, both have a long background on swimming, but even more background on coaching swimming. For that purpose I found a perfect book, 300 pages about freestyle swimming. As to my nature, I have to get to know the technical jargon about swimming, that I would be able to learn to swim smoothly. Great website as well!ĭue to my Triathlon enthusiasm in past year, I've got into swimming also. just getting a workout - I was doing that but still gasping after 50 meters!) I recommend Swim Smooth.

If you have to buy one book on swimming and you are working towards any sort of competition or you want to learn strongly (vs. The drills make sense and move you along well enough you don't feel like you are taking everything soooooo sllllloooo5 very strong stars.

They explain things so anyone can understand. I've used several of the exercises and it is definitely helping to increase confidence. I'll come back and update the review as I go further through it but I've already determined what type I am and all of it was dead bang on. I'm training for a triathlon and swimming is my weak area so I need to work on it. It clearly identified so many issues I have with swimming after getting back in the water after 20 years. We are stoked to have you come on this journey with us.Amazing book. Swim Smooth blends human and online experiences using inspiring coaches, educational content, tools and technology. We do what we do because we are passionate about innovation, and learning, and want to progress and support the whole swimming ecosystem. This lateral thinking has seen us create new ways to solve old problems and allows us to truly coach the swimmer as an individual and not the stroke as a theoretical concept. When combined with our systematic Swim Types framework, which is based on thousands of hours on the pool decks and waterways of the world, this becomes a very fluid, but logical, way to coach. In fact, we admire this attribute in our coaches and those we train above all else. Whether you swim by yourself, with a group, are a coach or a national federation, we are here to help.Ĭreative ingenuity is at the heart and soul of everything we do. We have created a unique methodology that seeks to simplify the complexity of improving freestyle swimming for all abilities and levels. Swim Smooth’s sole purpose is to benefit and enhance the freestyle swimming and triathlon communities around the world.

Swim Smooth by Paul Newsome