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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If you are using fins to keep up in a lane, I wonder, are you really getting the most out of your workout? If it takes 10% less effort to keep up with the faster people, are you really getting a better workout than if you moved down a lane?
I'd really prefer not to swim in the slowest lane. Usually it has very new swimmers who may be much faster than me but have no endurance nor sense of pacing, will stop each 25yards blocking the wall, decide to switch to breaststroke during a free set, won't follow the interval send-offs and otherwise don't understand lane etiquette. They end up drifting back in line, starting out leading the lane but by repeat #5 they are the last swimmer if they bother to tell anybody they are taking extra rest.
If you are using fins to keep up in a lane, I wonder, are you really getting the most out of your workout? If it takes 10% less effort to keep up with the faster people, are you really getting a better workout than if you moved down a lane?
I'd really prefer not to swim in the slowest lane. Usually it has very new swimmers who may be much faster than me but have no endurance nor sense of pacing, will stop each 25yards blocking the wall, decide to switch to breaststroke during a free set, won't follow the interval send-offs and otherwise don't understand lane etiquette. They end up drifting back in line, starting out leading the lane but by repeat #5 they are the last swimmer if they bother to tell anybody they are taking extra rest.
