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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Shaky>The pool also has a variety of colorful noodles.
Shaky> I mention them because I have seen some of
Shaky>those new lap swimmers trying to use them in a
Shaky> variety of ways during their workouts. It looks
Shaky> rather strange to see some guy thrashing
Shaky> violently about with a big purple tail ...
When our coach has had a bad day at work, he makes us kick with a couple of those noodles under our arm pits. The justification for this form of torture is that it helps us keep our hips up while kicking. Another drill he has us do is to do a *** stroke pull while flutter kicking with the noodle under our arm pits. This is sort of like the lane line pull drill except you can also work on keeping your hips up at the same time. This is actually a good drill. So the noodles are not worthless for swimmers.
I wonder if any swim coach has found a use for those dumb bells? When I am on the road, they are guaranteed to be there, unlike kick boards, pull buoys or those noodles.
Shaky>The pool also has a variety of colorful noodles.
Shaky> I mention them because I have seen some of
Shaky>those new lap swimmers trying to use them in a
Shaky> variety of ways during their workouts. It looks
Shaky> rather strange to see some guy thrashing
Shaky> violently about with a big purple tail ...
When our coach has had a bad day at work, he makes us kick with a couple of those noodles under our arm pits. The justification for this form of torture is that it helps us keep our hips up while kicking. Another drill he has us do is to do a *** stroke pull while flutter kicking with the noodle under our arm pits. This is sort of like the lane line pull drill except you can also work on keeping your hips up at the same time. This is actually a good drill. So the noodles are not worthless for swimmers.
I wonder if any swim coach has found a use for those dumb bells? When I am on the road, they are guaranteed to be there, unlike kick boards, pull buoys or those noodles.
