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Winner of two Olympic gold medals in swimming, de Varona aims to take the tedium out of swimming, a sport that many experts recommend for improving cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, muscular strength and endurance. Thus, de Varona's acquatic exercises are geared to offer variety to swimmers of average ability; she also includes instructions for swimming the crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. PW noted that the photographs of de Varona ""are undoubtedly the book's best argument for the efficacy of hydro-aerobics.'' (March)