TY - BOOK AU - Ford,Daniel AU - Dickson,Amy TI - Your 12-week guide to swimming: from your armchair to a 400-metre swim in 12 weeks T2 - Getting fit 12-week guide SN - 1780092350 (pbk) U1 - 797.21 23 PY - 2013/// CY - London ; Sydney PB - New Holland KW - Aquatic exercises KW - Physical fitness KW - Popular works KW - Swimming N1 - "Getting fit -- Getting started" -- Cover N2 - 12-week guide: Swimming offers an achievable step-by-step guide to help get an unfit person to a definable goal - a 400 metre swim in 12 weeks. The book outlines how to get started, what's needed and how to make that first step. Then using the week-by-week guide the reader works towards the target goal in very gradual steps with a weekly programme plus basic tips on nutrition, motivation, stretching and so on. The emphasis is on a very gradual approach towards achieving the goal so that the reader feels comfortable and there is constant reaffirmation of achievements as he/she works through the programme. There will also be sections for the reader's own notes, which are important for that all-important feeling of success as he/she works towards the ultimate goal of looking better and feeling fitter ER -