Review: Exercise Without Pounding
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
As the author notes, swimming is a great way "to exercise with a reduced level of impact on your body."  It provides a way to get an overall workout without stressing your skeleton.  This is an excellent book for beginners:  it describes the various swimming strokes and provides some specific swimming workouts for beginners.  Partly because it is not weight-bearing exercise, swimming is not the best exercise for losing body fat; however, if you do a lot of swimming it will burn calories for hours even after you get out of the pool.  I recommend this book for those interested in beginning to use swimming as exercise.