Svømning og dykning

Ældre, der træner til triatlon, langdistancecykelløb, svømmekonkurrencer og skiløb er ikke længere noget særsyn. Seniormotionister i USA, der træner intensivt og hårdt og dyrker elitesport, kender Joe Friel og hans bog Fast after 50, der på dansk hedder +50 og hurtig. Bogen er allerede blevet en klassiker.Forfatteren Joe Friel trækker på den nyeste forskning, og den viser, at ældre sagtens kan træne hårdt og skabe gode præstationer, selv om de kommer godt over 50 år.+50 og hurtig indeholder højintensive træningsprogrammer, øvelser til styrketræning, tips til restitution, crosstræning og ernæringsprogrammer for højintensiv træning.Af bogens indhold:Hvordan reagerer kroppen på træningsprogrammer efterhånden, som man bliver ældre? Man får tips til at tilpasse træningen, så man ikke overtræner.Hvordan kommer man af med kropsfedt og genvinder muskelstyrke?Hvordan opsætter man niveauer for træningen, så man trinvist kan styrke kroppen?Øvelsesanvisninger, forslag til tests og metoder til at måle træningsintensiteten.

EFTER 3 ÅRS SEJLADS RUNDT OM JORDEN I SKIBET HAVANA, HAR BRØDRENE ALFRED, THEIS & EMIL BESLUTTET SIG FOR, AT FORTÆLLE OM DERES MANGE OPLEVELSER I EN SERIE BØGER. Brødrene har dykket hele deres liv og kan fortælle vidt og bredt om alt, fra at fiske med harpun til at dykke rundt om pukkelhvaler, på koralrev og begå sig mellem hajerne og derfor vil den første bog - planlagt til udgivelse i april - starte med selve dykningen hvadenten det er med snorkel, fridyk eller med flasker. De tre følgende bøger vil handle om Livet på koralrevet, Havets kæmper (hvalerne) og Mellem hajer. Bøgerne er rettet mod de yngre læsere og vil være fortalt i både tekst, billeder og illustrationer, lavet af kusinen Amanda, krydret med fakta-info og er derfor en lærerig, underholdende og informativ læsning baseret på brødrenes erfaringer. Den er også særdeles velegnet til læsning med voksne eller til egenlæsning for de mere øvede læsere. Og for de, som bare ikke kan få nok af familiens eventyr - uanset alder - er der masser af nye historier og billeder, som ikke før har set dagens lys.

I TRITRÆNING FOR KVINDER er ideen, at du skal lære at træne smart og uden at få skader, og undervejs får man rådgivning om effektiv træning inden for svømning, cykling og løb. Målet er at kunne nyde rejsen og processen mindst lige så meget som målet – uanset hvad målet er. TRITRÆNING FOR KVINDER handler også om at finde glæden og motivationen, når det gør allermest ondt – suppleret med anekdoter fra Michelles eget liv. Ud over udførlige øvelser er der råd om restitution, forberedelse og kost – og som en ekstra bonus kan man lære at tale tri. Alt er skrevet med et glimt i øjet og uden fanatisme – det handler om at finde ind til den måde, der passer en bedst.

Babysvømning med et relationsperspektiv giver både forældre og børn et forspring i livet.Vand er noget, vi har et forhold til hele livet. Så det gælder om at komme godt fra start. Og den sikreste vej til at blive som en fisk i vandet er at lære det våde element at kende sammen med dem, man kender bedst.Bogen beskriver for første gang babysvømning ud fra et relationsperspektiv med udgangspunkt i samspillet mellem barnet og den voksne - fra de første karbad til svømmebassinet. Den er skrevet til dig, som er kommende, nybagt forælder eller bedsteforælder og som gerne vil lære mere om, hvordan babysvømning kan styrke forholdet til dit barn.Forfatteren Ulrika Færch trækker på mange tusinder familiers oplevelser og mere end 20 års erfaring med de unikke egenskaber, som man kan opnå gennem babysvømning - og som rækker langt ud over bassinkanten og ind i fremtiden.”Du kan lære alt, hvad der er værd at vide om babysvømning ved at læse denne bog og samtidig kan du lære en masse om at være en opmærksom og nærværende forælder.” Jesper Juul, fra forordet til bogen

"Dykkerens Fiskebog" er uundværlig for dykkere og snorklere som besøger troperne. Især i Thailand, men også i resten af Indo-pacific er bogen et nyttigt redskab til at bestemme de fisk, man ser.I bogen er beskrevet 325 fiskearter med tekst og billeder. Fotografierne er fra Andamanerhavet, så fiskene optræder i deres naturlige omgivelser og de lokale variationer, som findes netop i dette område.I bogen findes desuden et stort afsnit med andre tropiske havdyr, bl.a. koraller, søpindsvin, krabber, muslinger, snegle, havslanger og havskildpadder.I "Dykkerens Fiskebog" er der, for første gang, brugt de officielle videnskabelige danske navne til samtlige fiskearter. Desuden er de engelske og latinske betegnelser medtaget.

Dette er den sande historie om to mænds heroiske, men tilsyneladende umulige kamp for at overleve. En skibskok er strandet i en luftlomme i vraget af et sunket skib 34 meter under havets overflade. Med næsten ingen ilt og uden at nogen aner, at han er i live. Men nogen kommer ham alligevel til undsætning.Tre dage senere ankommer et redningsskib for at bjærge de døde. En nyuddannet dykker bliver som den første sendt ind, og til sin skræk og store overraskelse finder han kokken i live, dybt inde i det sunkne skib.Men det er først nu problemerne virkelig begynder, og de er begge i livsfare.Bogen bygger på Lasse Spang Olsens nye dokumentarfilm; på Lasses interviews med alle involverede samt blandt andet på de utrolige autentiske optagelser fra dykkerhjelme, kameraer og radiokommunikation. Og bogen er rigt illustreret med Lasse Spang Olsens egne stills, framegrabs og fotos.

The ultimate travel itineraries for above and below water in this inspiring and comprehensive guide to the worlds 50 best scuba diving destinations.

To kvinder, Sally og Ellen, passionerede svømmere, optændt af drømmen om at krydse Den Engelske Kanal. I 1939 lykkes det for Sally, og hun fejres som en heltinde. Årtier senere, i 1983, rejser Ellen til Dover for at gentage Sally Bauers præstation. Hun har indgået en aftale med sin mand, Viktor. Hvis hun gennemfører turen over Kanalen, må hun i fremtiden hellige sig svømningen; hvis ikke, skal hun og børnene ledsage Viktor på hans drømmerejse med sejlbåd over Atlanterhavet. I 2001 vender Ellens nu voksne datter tilbage til Dover for at mindes den sommer i 1983, hvor hendes mor led sit livs nederlag. Hun forsøger at forstå. Forstå, hvad det var, der drev Ellen og Sally mod den store præstation, og hvorfor Ellen måtte kapitulere, mens Sally benhårdt forfulgte sin drøm. Happy Sally er en smuk og indtrængende roman om to frihedselskende kvinder og deres kamp for at realisere en lidenskab, der har store omkostninger for dem selv og de mennesker, der er tæt på dem.

Winner of the Cross Sports International Autobiography of the Year awardIn the 1970s, Diana Nyad was widely regarded as the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world and set many world records, such as circling Manhattan Island and crossing the 102.5 miles between the Bahamas and Florida. But one record continually eluded her: becoming the first woman to swim between Cuba and the Florida Keys without a shark cage. Finally, in September 2013, after four failed attempts and at the age of sixty-four, Diana completed the crossing after two days and two nights of continuous swimming - 53 consecutive hours, 110 miles. Millions of people watched her and cried and cheered and were dazzled and amazed by her tenacity and courage. Her memoir, Find a Way, is a dramatic, page-turning account of the epic endurance quest that led to that moment, and is also a galvanizing call to live life boldly, in-the-moment, fearlessly, passionately, with no regrets. What makes this book special is that it not only recounts an astonishing and hard won triumph, though it does tell the story of an extraordinary and improbable victory. What makes this book, and Nyad herself, so incredible is the fact of her monumental courage in the face of failure. Nyad failed, and failed, and failed, and failed, but never gave up, and this memoir shows her unwavering belief in the face of overwhelming odds. It is about perseverance, tenacity and commitment on an epic scale.

Lotte Friis er den bedste danske langdistance-svømmer nogensinde og har vundet medaljer ved både OL, VM og EM.Men selv om hun mange gange har stået øverst på sejrsskamlen, har karrieren også budt på store nedture. I FIGHTEREN fortæller hun bl.a. om at misse kvalifikationen til OL i 2004 – og om at gå helt ned, da hun var medaljefavorit til OL i London i 2012. FIGHTEREN er et anderledes portræt af en verdensstjerne i en sport, der ikke nyder stor bevågenhed i Danmark. Bogen er rigt illustreret.

The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspire a ?wave of confidence and emancipation? for women in sports (Parade).By age twenty, at the height of the Jazz Age, Trudy Ederle was the most accomplished swimmer in the world. She'd won Olympic gold and set a host of world records. But the greatest challenge remained: the English Channel. Only a few swimmers, none of them women, had ever made the treacherous twenty-one mile crossing. Trudy's failed first attempt seemed to confirm what many naysayers believed: No woman could possibly accomplish such a thing.In 1926, Ederle proved them wrong. As her German immigrant parents cheered her, and her sister and fellow swimmer Meg helped fashion both her scandalous two-piece swimsuit and leak-proof goggles, Trudy was determined to succeed. ?England or drown is my motto,? she said, plunging into the frigid Channel for her second attempt at the crossing. Fourteen hours later, two hours faster than any man, and after weathering a gale and waves that approached six-feet, she stepped onto Kingsdowne Beach as the most famous woman in the world.Based on years of archival research that unearthed Ederle's memory from obscurity, Young Woman and the Sea brings to life the real Trudy Ederle, the challenges that came with her fame, and the historic mark her achievement made for all women athletes who followed.

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Dive deep into that age-old habit humans have carried over centuries-the ever-tranquil act of bathing in nature.Whether in oceans or lakes, streams, or rivers; humans have been drawn to water and the unique bathing opportunities it offers. This title celebrates our connection with water, focusing on outdoor bathing locations around the world. From spots nature created expertly herself to places designed by humans to harness rugged and remote surroundings, this book examines in detail the long-standing relationship between humans and outdoor bathing in a way sure to charm the inner bather in us all.

Diving Science...Revisited is like no other diving text, including its predecessor, Diving Science. Amplified with figures, tables, and photos in color, this book includes four unique and innovative parts amplified by nine contributors.Medical problems of diving (MPD) are discussed from stimulus-response perspectives in the phase of a dive in which they are likely to occur.MPD are explained by how they affect the human diver whether physical, physiological, psychological, and/or lack of awareness.A variety of diving types and situations from breath-hold to rebreather, from children to women to older aged adults, from cold water to cave, and from deep altitude to diving with handicaps are described in individual chapters with their merits, hazards, and necessary precautions for safe diving.Part IV contains a concise summary of the MPD from seven different perspectives ranging from the significance of the problem to when to return to diving.Part V consists of a rhetorical question for each of the first four parts with bullet points that recap the subjects covered in each chapter.This book describes the positive as well as undesirable ways divers' interact with the aquatic environment. It is especially recommended for the following:Diving instructors and supervisorsThose involved with clinical applications of hyperbaric oxygen therapyThose engaged in diving-associated marine biology and underwater missionsAll divers, whether novice or advanced, who want to advance their knowledge about the science and medical challenges of diving.

The Definitive Guide to Bonaire Scuba Diving and SnorkelingWith a mapping style and key information presented in a way that really prepares you for each dive site, this book is exactly what divers want. Ocean Frontiers#1 Best Seller in Water Sports & CaribbeanFrom the authors of the Reef Smart Guide series comes Reef Smart Guides: Bonaire, a unique and essential scuba, snorkel, and surf travel guide for Bonaire diving.A great Caribbean travel guide.The ultimate travel guide for beach and marine activities in Bonaire. The detailed descriptions and illustrations of beaches, coral reefs, shipwrecks, and other dive spots are ideal for divers, snorkelers, kitesurfers and windsurfers. Make the most of your time on Bonaire island and in the water.Detailed descriptions and map art.With the help of Reef Smarts unique 3D-mapping technology, learn all you need to know about the regions' top dive and snorkel sites. These maps provide useful information such as depths, currents, waves, suggested routes, potential hazards, unique structures and species information.Dont go diving without it.This indispensable resource helps you plan and execute dives without a hitch. Make sure to pack this guidebook with the rest of your scuba gear when you visit Bonaire island, the shore diving capital of the Caribbean.In this essential guide you get:The best locations for diving, snorkeling, kitesurfing and windsurfing, and how to access themDetailed 3D maps, graphics and information to help you plan your time in and out of the waterSpecies guide to help you identify and understand the marine creatures you will encounterIf you enjoyed 100 Dives of a Lifetime, Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die, or Dive Atlas of the World, than Reef Smart Guides: Bonaire is the perfect addition to your diving collection! Also dont miss other Reef Smart Guides for the best diving in Florida: Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach and Palm Beach; Barbados, and Grand Cayman.

Cayman Islands-based underwater photographer Fin Fleming allows a film company to use RIO's perfect facility as the setting for a big budget movie in exchange for hefty fees. Along with the movie, RIO is hosting an exhibition of real-life sea relics and ocean treasures featured in the picture. The most valuable exhibit, the twelve Anderson Sea Stars, is worth millions.A wily thief steals the set of solid gold starfish set with precious gems depicting the signs of the zodiac. But before the thief can get away, a ruthless killer whacks him but leaves the golden stars behind with the body.Meanwhile, superstar heart throb Rafe Cummings hires her to teach him to scuba dive, then puts the moves on her, threatening her once perfect romance with her fiancé Liam Lawton.As the killer continues attacking other members of the RIO team and the film crew, the case has Detective Dane Scott stumped, and Fin knows she'll have to solve the crime herself or watch her beloved oceanographic institute go under.Filled with romance, family secrets, and scuba diving, this latest entry in the addictive series will keep you hooked from first page to last.

The Definitive Guide to SCUBA Diving and Snorkeling in Barbados"This is what divers want. A mapping style and key information presented in a way that really prepares you for each dive site. I expect this book will be the tool that dive shops give to their new divemasters to learn all of the top dive sites quickly." Ocean Frontiers#1 New Release in Sports & CaribbeanFor Lonely Planet fans comes a unique and essential SCUBA, snorkel, and surf travel guide.A great Caribbean travel book. The ultimate guide for beach and marine activities in Barbados. The detailed descriptions and illustrations of beaches, coral reefs, shipwrecks, and other dive spots are ideal for divers, snorkelers, kitesurfers and windsurfers. Make the most of your time on the island and in the water.Detailed descriptions and map art. With the help of Reef Smart¿s unique 3D-mapping technology, learn all you need to know about the regions' top dive and snorkel sites. These maps provide useful information such as depths, currents, waves, suggested routes, potential hazards, unique structures and species information.Don¿t go diving without it. This indispensable resource will help you plan and execute dives without a hitch. Make sure to pack this guidebook with the rest of your SCUBA gear.This guidebook provides:The best locations for diving, snorkeling and surfing, and how to access themDetailed 3D maps, graphics and information to help you plan your time in and out of the waterSpecies guide to help you identify and understand the marine creatures yoüll encounter in BarbadosAnd much more!A unique and comprehensive SCUBA diving book. Also look for Reef Smart Guides Florida: Palm Beach; Reef Smart Guides Florida: Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach; and the best selling Reef Smart Guides Bonaire.

Competitiveness, like all things, is a practice. But I was born with it baked in, a head start, a small beast locked in a too-small cage, snarling at the bars whenever there was a task at hand. My mother started feeding it young. Maybe she'd learnt what my father had always known: that I might have to work twice as hard to have half as much.Rebecca was born a ?freedom baby', a child whose birth coincided with the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, to a white mother and Black father. She was in-between, a breathing blend of her parents' skin, well-acquainted with that unsettling sense of non-belonging from an early age. But the water welcomed her strong body and she caught the eye of coaches at swimming schools in the UK. Fuelled by a natural competitiveness honed on the sharp edge of her mother's love, Rebecca plunged into the hothouse of British swimming, and soon was persuaded to swap sporting nationalities, leaving Kenya behind to pledge allegiance to Great Britain. Rebecca learns that training is designed to be punishing - to break down, excoriate, and puncture pain barriers. She learns that to swim a perfect race is to experience a sort of ecstatic communion between body and liquid world. And she also learns that her body, her Black body, is a commodity that other people feel entitled to, whose performance is constantly scrutinised, debated, and subjected to a racism both universal and endemic to the white world of swimming.

Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female swimmers-none more so than synchronised swimmers. In this deeply researched history, Vicki Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance for the first time, from Victorian variety theatre and carnival shows to the 1984 elevation of synchronised swimming to Olympic status. Writing in eloquent prose, Valosik shows how early starlets like Lurline the Water Queen and Annette Kellerman boldly challenged restrictive codes set for women in water; more than just bathing beauties, they influenced lifesaving and physical-education programmes, dropped drowning rates and paved the way for new generations of female swimming athletes. Brimming with reverence and mesmerising detail, Swimming Pretty finally foregrounds an essential sport.

In "Barely There: A Splashy History of Men's Swimwear," Andrews Howle navigates the vibrant and complex world of men's swimwear, diving deep into its historical, cultural, and sociological undercurrents. From full-bodied Victorian woolens to the snug SWIMMERS of athletic icons, Howle charts the shifting tides of fashion, societal norms, and personal preference. Drenched in detailed analysis, rich anecdotes, and vibrant imagery, this comprehensive study also offers a future-facing look at where the wave of swimwear trends might carry us next. Howle's lively narrative will immerse readers in a captivating journey that exposes far more than skin. It is a unique exploration that challenges perceptions, bares truths, and plunges headfirst into the splashy history of men's swimwear.

I have been teaching swimming for the past fifty-eight years. The swim lessons encouraged me to coach swim teams for twenty-five years. During those years, I had championship teams and swimmers. I am currently teaching swimming at the April sound country club, in Montgomery, Texas.I have found that the techniques in this book work on everyone from 3 years to 80. the greater their fear the greater the challenge is for me. I have taught hundreds of children and adults utilizing these unique teaching concepts. I take great pride in teaching children a life skill that will keep helping them safe as well as provide a healthy activity at any age!

Discover 60 games that use little or no equipment and that cover all of the essential basics of learning to swim, including breathing, floating, submerging, gliding, kicking and pulling. Explore games and activities that teach them all.Using games and play to teach your child how to swim will not only open their mind to imagination and engagement, but it will help to distract them from the fears and anxieties often associated with the new sensations of being in the water and the expectations that come with learning how to swim.'I'm Mark Young, a swimming teacher with 30 years experience, and let me tell you, teaching my own three children to swim was a nightmare! They did not want to listen to Dad and just wanted to play. So, I gave up trying to teach them and let them play. Then it hit me. By playing and doing their own thing, they discovered the water for themselves. So I began to weave in some basic swimming skills and elements of swimming lessons into their games and, because it was a game, they were willing participants. Without knowing, they were learning how to swim as part of their play. Use the games and tools in my book and you can do the same. Have fun!'

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools while taking a closer look at artists, architects, writers, and others who have helped to cement the swimming pool's prominent and iconic role in our society and culture.Swimming Pool explores the pool as a place where humans seek to attain the unique union between mind and body.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

How to scuba dive? How to get my scuba diving certification? Start off on the right fin!If you are not a diver yet, this in-depth handbook is everything you need to know about diving and scuba certification in a step-by-step beginner's guide.If you are a newly certified scuba diver and do not yet feel safe & comfortable underwater, this guide will show you how to become as comfortable underwater as you are when sitting on your couch.If you are a scuba diving instructor, this reference book will provide a quality framework to use with your students to prepare them for a lifetime of legendary underwater experiences.Regardless of your reason for wanting to learn to dive, chances are you won't go scuba diving after completing your open-water certification. Weird, right?There are "holes" in the way scuba diving instructors teach, and this handbook will lay it bare so you can prepare to learn to dive and get what you need for a lifetime of legendary underwater adventures.Recommendations are backed by industry-wide surveys that the author shares with you. He also explains ISO international scuba diving training standards so you can prepare and know if you are being short-changed.This step-by-step handbook to learning to dive covers scuba certification courses, dive equipment & dive travel with 550+ pages of actionable information.Should I get a PADI certification or go with another dive training agency? How much does it cost to learn to dive? How can I save money?How can I get comfortable underwater? What can I do to feel & be safe while scuba diving? What are the scuba certification levels and which ones matter to me?Typical mistakes made by people who decide to learn to dive.The pitfalls & traps in the dive industry. How to avoid them.Where to take your certification and with whom.Selecting a dive instructor, dive center, dive resort & dive boat.Your health & fitness to dive.What dive gear to buy & what to rent.How to save money by spending on what will actually help you.And so much more!Most books about scuba diving are written by instructors with good content. But Darcy Kieran gives you a 360-degree view from his experience as a scuba diving instructor trainer & owner/manager of dive shops, dive equipment wholesalers, dive boats, scuba diving university programs, and dive resorts.This handbook won't teach you how to scuba dive - you must get in the water for that! But you will know exactly what to do before registering for a scuba certification course.The author shares typical mistakes that would cost you time and money and, in many cases, provide you with such a bad experience that you would want to stop scuba diving. This book gives you a chance to learn from others' mistakes! It will help you understand how the dive industry operates so you can navigate it to your advantage.Do not risk missing out on a lifetime of legendary scuba diving adventures because many dive professionals you'll encounter are not always professional. Instead, learn how to be the leader of your own adventure!

A comprehensive history of the South End Rowing Club, established in 1873 and one of San Francisco's oldest sporting and social institutions, its rich history mirrors much of the City's own past.