There are so many new products on the market, oddly shaped paddles, gloves - I even saw this contraption where you connect a tube from your waste to your ankles so that kicking is more difficult.
I do not think that this equipment is effective - particularily paddles - unless you are a very high lever swimmer and you only use it spottingly. Unfortunately ussage tends to be most common with LOW level swimmers and these swimmers use the equipment far too much durring each workout.
My advice to those returning to the pool is to avoid all of this stuff - it will only lead to injuries.
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Like someone else who posted, I found fins to be very helpful when I returned to swimming after a long time away. Now I use them rarely, and at the end of my workout to try to strengthen a very weak kick.
Though I don't want to add a bunch of toys, I have wondered about fist gloves? One of the posts here makes it sound like you can get the same benefit from holding tennis balls in your hands? Perhaps I will try that.
a thread on pet peeves would most likely bring a large string of responses!!
Nancy
Like someone else who posted, I found fins to be very helpful when I returned to swimming after a long time away. Now I use them rarely, and at the end of my workout to try to strengthen a very weak kick.
Though I don't want to add a bunch of toys, I have wondered about fist gloves? One of the posts here makes it sound like you can get the same benefit from holding tennis balls in your hands? Perhaps I will try that.
a thread on pet peeves would most likely bring a large string of responses!!
Nancy
