|
Off the Deep End Posters
Photos Art
Search for Posters Art Prints, photos and get
results from all the many categories from Amazon including
books, videos, dvds, toys, video games, and more.
|
|
|
Posters Art
Prints Photos collectables |
|
|
|
|
|
|
If for some reason you can't find what the
poster or art print your looking for try using the search boxes
below
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Rating:  -
As a fledgling swimmer who is close in age to the author, I can't say enough good things about this book. I absolutely loved it. I think non-swimmers will enjoy it as well, though swimmers will surely be able to appreciate it that much more. And while the literature on swimming is no doubt a bit thin, this surely ranks as one of the best books ever written about swimming. Bravo!
Rating:  -
If you are in your 40s, for that matter 30s or 50s and struggling to keep up to what you physically could do before-this book is an inspiration. It is funny, a quick read, and really is a good chance to look inside yourself and see if you are trying as hard as ou can. I highly recommend it. For non swimmers, the author does not get lost in swimming jargon or discussions, and when he comes close, he apologizes. great book.
Rating:  -
Hodding Carter offers plenty of dry wit along with an incessant immersion in wildly entertaining self-styled swimmming regimens in pursuit of a lofty 2008 Beijing Olympic qualifying spot on Team USA...at age 45. Fabulous zeal and uttely shameless creativity in finding ways to train himself in odd places while dealing with the mid life pressures of job, husband, parent of young children. For the novice, this was also an, at times, deliriously funny direct window into what it takes to go after a dream this big. Who straps on a little surival basket of goodies and a flag to a surfboard, ties it to his torso and swims from island to island with a former Olympic Gold medal swimmer in the Florida Keys?!! All in a day's work for Carter. Truely was pulling for him to make the Olympic 2008 team. Thanks Hodding for all the extra info readers are able to follow. (Indiana University swimming/kinesthetics department for example. How else would I have found out chocolate milk is the recommended recovery rehydration beverage of choice for swimmers of multiple events. Yep, IU actually published findings on research entitled: "Efficacy of Chocolate Milk as Recovery Fluid....".) What's not to love about this zany and yet true watery vision quest for the Gold! A great read for anyone who feels the magnetic pull of water world, at any level, mild to mesmerizing. Training tips are a pleasant surprise bonus.
Rating: -
This is a wonderful read! It is well-written, intelligent, and funny. I agree that this is a great read for Masters swimmers but also think it is a great read for any middle-aged person who decides that life is not on that downhill slide but rather that we can still accomplish tremendous things. Its about the joy of setting goals and then experiencing the day-to-day effort of working towards those goals - having a direction that is exciting.
I have been really inspired by Dara Torres making the Olympic Team at 41 - I know a lot of people have also been inspired by her performance. What is more interesting to me is that I am also inspired by Hodding Carter and his efforts to make the Olympics - he didn't make them but his journey and where he ended up are really something. Well done!
Rating: -
As a Masters swimmer, I really enjoyed this book! I finished it in a couple of days and handed it off to one of our coaches, who really enjoyed it as well. I told the rest of the team to go buy the book... We have all had Olympic dreams of one sort or another and looking at someones thought process was really interesting. Plus, there are some really very funny parts of the book if you know anything about swimming, as well as some good training insights for those of us over 40. Good Luck Hodding!
|
