I like to swim with fins some days, I have the zoomers and some regular fins. I notice when I swim finless that I feel slow as a snail.If I have been using the fins for a couple of days. I know some swimmers that only use fins as thats the only way they have been able to learn, to them I say great what ever works for exercise but have noted to them that they should at least be able to swim finless to get out of the pool for safety if they fell into water anywhere.
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Fins rule. :D
I like to use them for sprinting.. stuff like repeat 100s on a 2:00+ interval, coming in at sub 1:05. I could never come close to that speed without fins, nor could I approach the wonderful combination of lactic acid and ankle stretching that the fins produce.
I also use them for pace work on longer swims like 500s. With fins I can choose what pace/100 I want to swim the 500s on.. say 1:20, 1:15, 1:10, and allocate sufficient speed and pain while watching the clock every 100. Without fins I have to either accept a horribly slow pace (1:35+) or burn out and die after the first 150.
My level of effort to swim a 1:20 100 free without fins is about the same as what it takes to go sub-minute with fins. Since everyone else in my training group can do 1:20s at cruise effort, I pretty much have to use fins to keep up. The workouts are written at their intervals, not mine.
All this fin training doesn't seem to be hurting, because experience has shown that I swim faster in meets when I train a lot with fins.
Fins rule. :D
I like to use them for sprinting.. stuff like repeat 100s on a 2:00+ interval, coming in at sub 1:05. I could never come close to that speed without fins, nor could I approach the wonderful combination of lactic acid and ankle stretching that the fins produce.
I also use them for pace work on longer swims like 500s. With fins I can choose what pace/100 I want to swim the 500s on.. say 1:20, 1:15, 1:10, and allocate sufficient speed and pain while watching the clock every 100. Without fins I have to either accept a horribly slow pace (1:35+) or burn out and die after the first 150.
My level of effort to swim a 1:20 100 free without fins is about the same as what it takes to go sub-minute with fins. Since everyone else in my training group can do 1:20s at cruise effort, I pretty much have to use fins to keep up. The workouts are written at their intervals, not mine.
All this fin training doesn't seem to be hurting, because experience has shown that I swim faster in meets when I train a lot with fins.
