Improve your times by improving your technique! Whether you are a competitive swimmer, coach, triathlete, or dedicated fitness enthusiast, The Swimming Drill Book will propel you to better results by maximizing efficiency in the water.

With 128 highly effective drills, expert instruction, and more than 375 detailed illustrations, you can use this comprehensive resource to improve every facet of your swimming. Establish a greater sense of balance and position in the water; maintain perfect form for the freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly; and master the techniques for starts, turns, and finishes. Use the drills individually or create a personalized program based on your goals and fitness level. Either way, the tools you need are within your grasp.

Dive into The Swimming Drill Book and see fast results!

296 pages. 2011.

Talent, skill, and a passion to compete: These are the characteristics that define elite-level swimmers. But as the sport's best coaches know, even the most gifted of athletes won't develop these traits without a plan-one that recognizes talent, develops skills, and nurtures success.

Developing Swimmers is the only book to offer a comprehensive, long-term plan beginning at an age-group level. Renowned coach Michael Brooks shares the insights, secrets, and strategies that have transformed his athletes and swim teams from novice competitors to distinguished champions.

Developing Swimmers will show you how to:

• evaluate and identify talent in even the youngest swimmers;
• establish realistic yet challenging short- and long-term goals for your athletes;
• assess and refine strokes for greater power and efficiency;
• improve starts, turns, and finishes for faster times;
• structure positive and productive practices for swimmers and swim teams;
• foster your swimmers' passion, bolster commitment, and instill winning attitudes

240 pages. 2011

Cross Training through Dryland and Weight Training gives you the tools to build a seasonal plan that prepares you for increased physical strength and stability starting with your core.

The main goal of deck-based dryland (or simply "dryland") within this program is to increase the overall density of work performed and to increase general working capacities. Another term for this is GPP, or General Physical Preparedness. A high level of GPP will not only increase general fitness, but help facilitate recovery from swim and weight training and, in all, bring your ability to train in the water to a higher level. Increasing your GPP will lead to faster swimming!

Multiple qualities can be addressed with a well designed dryland program. Overall GPP can be enhanced through improvements in energy system efficiency, strength (general and core), power output, mobility, flexibility and balance.

The goal of this program is not to lay out a cookie-cutter, year-long program, but to give you the tools to set up dryland work, improve some of the basic qualities of GPP, and some general guidelines to evaluate dryland abilities and progression.

Dryland workout examples are included, as is a full 7-week dryland taper program.

The Cross Training is taken right from Section 6 of Faster Swimming.

87 pages. 2010.

• 115+ Swim Workouts that follow a comprehensive plan.
• 46 Dryland Workouts to build strength and power.
• A complete 7 Week Taper
• A full introduction to guide you through the season.

This 23 week season has been document for years and tweaking it as needed based on new ideas and the abilities of my swimmers. The daily yardage amount on the 23 week plan can be tailored to your needs based on the time you want to train.

This program can be adapted to swimming 2-3 or up to 6 times a week, with any yardage amount you desire to swim. The important thing is to follow the regime and do all that is planned.

392 pages. 2010.

In athletics we rely on two things in particular to achieve results - effort and consistency. Effort is unique to each individual, so this has to be accounted for in our program. The Answer accomplishes this mainly through Time-Based Training. Time-Based Training is brutally simple: accomplish as much work as you can, with whatever type of training, in a given time period. For example, if you were jumping rope, you would jump as fast as you possibly could for, let's say, 5 minutes. This might sound too simple and too easy to possibly work. The results say otherwise! No heavy lifting or marathon training sessions required, period.

The Answer is a COMPLETE 16-week diet and training program that ENSURES your success. It uses a wide variety of methods and exercises, all with photo descriptions, to get you the fat-loss and body recomposition results that you are looking for - in the minimum time possible.

126 pages. 2010.