Sarah Tieck
Swimming
(ABDO March 2, 2019)
Readers will discover how some of their favorite pastimes promote fitness and health in this informative series. Engaging text and full-color, kid-friendly photos show readers how their choice to stay physically active today can prevent health problems in the future. From skateboarding to yoga, readers will learn how each activity strengthens the heart, lungs, and muscles. Readers will become familiar with the basics of each activity, the necessary gear, and safety methods. Other topics include flexibility, balance, warming up and cooling down, stretching, goal setting, nutrition, and rest. A table of contents, fun facts, diagrams, a Q&A page, fitness tips, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index are included. This series will inspire readers to move their bodies!
Readers will discover how swimming promotes fitness and health in this informative title. Engaging text, full-color photos, and supplemental diagrams introduce them to swimming as an aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercise. Readers will become familiar with the basic swimming strokes, swimming gear, such as goggles and swim caps, and water safety. Warming up, cooling down, and stretching are also discussed, as well as nutrition and goal setting. A table of contents, fun facts, a Q&A page, fitness tips, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index are included. This book will inspire readers to jump in the water and move their bodies!