The Waterproof Coach:  The Waterproof Workout Book for Fitness Swimmers and Triathletes
The Waterproof Coach by Thomas Denes is the perfect training  companion for both the beginning swimmer and the seasoned triathlete  looking to jazz up a workout.  The Waterproof Coach is fun to read and  flip through.  More important, with so many workout choices, it's  never boring.  Denes, an international and national masters  competitor, brings humor and enthusiasm to his book, making The  Waterproof Coach the perfect training partner.  (Inside Triathlon,  December 1997) The Waterproof Coach is not a life-size, inflatable  doll with a whistle and stopwatch.  It's a spiral-bound workout book  with waterproof pages cut into three segments, like a children's  picture flip book.  Each third of a page is either a warm-up, a main  set, or a warm-down, ranging from easy to advanced.  You can swim the  workout on a whole page or mix up the thirds, doing an easy warm-up  and warm-down and a tough main set, for example.  The whole workouts  total anywhere from 800 to 2,500 yards, with suggested intervals and  rest.  And you'll never run out of workouts.  It would take you 19  years, swimming one workout a day, to swim all of the 6,700 possible  variations. (Fitness Swimmer, October/November 1997) Finally--a  swimming book you can take to the pool.  What a great idea!  If you're  a swimmer without a coach and swim a certain number of minutes, this  book would be a great way to enter the much-more-interesting world of  interval swimming.  Also, coached swimmers can use the book for  workout ideas when training alone or away from home.  (Swim Magazine,  September/October 1997) Unlike swimming with my regular coach who,  when splashed, became wet and irritated, this one didn't mind at all.  That is because this coach, 'The Waterproof Coach,' is a coated  workout book designed for pool side use.  You can splash it, dunk it  and soak it and you can just dry it off with a towel. (Transition  Times, October 1997) Need some help outside your master'swim program?  The Waterproof Coach may be the handy answer.  Spiral-bound for easy  flipping, its pages are divided into three segments: warm-ups, main  sets and cool-downs-ranging from easy to advanced.  Distances vary  from 800 to 3,500 yards, with a total of 6,700 possible workout  variations.  According to author Tom Denes, it would take 19 years  (swimming one workout a day) to swim all of the possible  workouts.  --Triathlete Magazine, February 1999