Swimming without Stress: Lessons for Land Lovers The essential guide for novice swimmers, improvers and aspiring triathletes. Swimming without Stress: Lessons for Land Lovers is swimming teacher Ian Cross's essential guide for novice swimmers, improvers and aspiring triathletes. Part One: Swimming Fundamentals for Land Lovers shows you how to make friends with the water and move easily on your front and back. The three main strokes, front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke, are demystified. Part Two: Train without Strain inspires confidence, motivates and prepares you for swimming and triathlon training. This series of thirteen articles, first published in British Runner magazine, is fully illustrated with colour photographs.