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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Originally posted by SearayPaul
Kick board, I use what ever board a kid left at the pool after practice... Pullboy, same as kick board.
I am fortunate, I guess, that my pool provides both kick boards and pull bouys. The kick boards are those dense hard foam kind that are shaped like gravestones and always have fingernail indentations in the end of them. The bouys are also made of foam and have teeth marks in them from where the kids have played with them. Maybe those things look like food, but I don't see it myself. I noticed one of the kickboards has a dental impression also; that kid must have had a pretty strong bite.
The pool also has a variety of colorful noodles and foam water "weights," those dumbell-shaped floating foam devices used by the old ladies in the water aerobics class. I mention them because I have seen some of those new lap swimmers trying to use them in a variety of ways during their workouts. It looks rather strange to see some guy thrashing violently about with a big purple tail or with foam dumbells in his hands.
Add a snorkel and mask to that purple tail and for a moment you'd think you just saw a water monster.
:p
Originally posted by SearayPaul
Kick board, I use what ever board a kid left at the pool after practice... Pullboy, same as kick board.
I am fortunate, I guess, that my pool provides both kick boards and pull bouys. The kick boards are those dense hard foam kind that are shaped like gravestones and always have fingernail indentations in the end of them. The bouys are also made of foam and have teeth marks in them from where the kids have played with them. Maybe those things look like food, but I don't see it myself. I noticed one of the kickboards has a dental impression also; that kid must have had a pretty strong bite.
The pool also has a variety of colorful noodles and foam water "weights," those dumbell-shaped floating foam devices used by the old ladies in the water aerobics class. I mention them because I have seen some of those new lap swimmers trying to use them in a variety of ways during their workouts. It looks rather strange to see some guy thrashing violently about with a big purple tail or with foam dumbells in his hands.
Add a snorkel and mask to that purple tail and for a moment you'd think you just saw a water monster.
:p
