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Volume 1 Number 1. Soon to be a collector's item, this issue includes

Waterworld: news in review (click here to see extracts from this item)
Waterlog: recent masters results
Waterspout: This month's opinions on Qualifying Times in masters events
Nutrition: Consuming Water - Why is it important to consume water or sports drinks after games and workouts? (Downloadable from Archive)
Braving the Kanaka Surf: The November 1999 Hawaiian Open Water Pre-World Championships meet
Planning Your Swimming Year - Part 1
Training for the Swimathon (Downloadable from Archive)
A Backstroke Revolution. Scott Rabalais, director of Crawfish Aquatics of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, fitness editor of SWIM magazine, and chairman of the United States Masters Swimming Coaches Committee
A Dozen Rules of Lap Swimmers (Downloadable from Archive)
Book Reviews: Swimming Past 50, by Mel Goldstein and Dave Tanner; Swimmer, by Bill Broady

Volume 1 Number 2 - main contents:

Planning Your Swimming Year - Part 2
Fitness Swimming: The Basic Equipment. (Downloadable from Archive)
Will it suit your body? Body suits for swimmers
N Ways To Improve Your Backstroke. (Downloadable from Archive)
Scottish Masters Swim Decathlon
Biomechanics: Streamlining is such a drag
Age Adjustment: Factors in Adult Swimming. (Downloadable from Archive)

Volume 1 Number 3 - main contents:

Adult Swimming Conference: A personal view from Andy Wilson
Water People: John Harrison (Click here for extracts)
Drills To Improve Your Front Crawl (Downloadable from Archive)
Twelve Commandments for Masters Swimmers
The Lost Art of the Open Turn
Planning Your Swimming Year - Part 3
How Does One Get Faster?

Volume 1 Number 4 - main contents:

Make The Best Of Your Swim
Recovery, The Key To Fitness
Improving Your Breaststroke Technique (Downloadable from Archive)
Water people: Lesley Wilde (Click here for extracts)
Gripewater: Masters Swimming - the future (Tony Pearce)
Taking That First Tentative Step
More For Lap Swimmers - using the training clock

Volume 1 Number 5 - main contents:

Emotional Maintenance or "mens sana" as well
Jetlag - Encounter & Counter
Medal Fatigue (Downloadable from Archive)
Towards Constructive Lap Swimming
Swimming into Retirement (Water People - John Davis) (Click here for extracts)
Extending Your Distance Base

Volume 1 Number 6 - main contents:

Where will it all end?
To Overload or to Underload
Water People: Judy Wilson
What Suits You May Not Suit Me
United States Short Course Nationals
Some Drills to Improve Your Butterfly
Diversify or Sink

Volume 1 Number 7 - main contents

Getting into hot water - the problems of training in pools made warm for casual bathers
Is your swimming a drag? - form drag and surface drag
Attracting the judges' eye - avoiding disqualification
Where will it all end - a sequal - a reader's response
Visualise to realise - positive thinking applied to your swimming
How do you score? - 20 tests to rate your dedication
Ten crucial books in swimming history - from 1893 to 1993

Volume 1 Number 8 - main contents

World Masters Championships 2000 - report and results
Whither the bodysuit? - a discussion of its effect on swimming
Psyching up and psyching out - the technique of the warm up
At ease - how swimmers drill