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 aquageek
However, the fact that someone is making an effort to improve their physical conditioning should be applauded, not ridiculed. Maybe a word of encouragement or invitation to participate with other Masters would help that person stay in the pool.
Perhaps I should take them by the hand and lead them in a poolside rendition of Kum Ba Yah.
I didn't ridicule people who are making an effort to improve their physical condition. I ridiculed posers who have no idea how to use the toys, or what they're for, who buy them because they think that the equipment makes the sport. I ridiculed those people who think that because they buy the toys, they are now "swimmers" and should tie up the fast and very fast lanes with their thrashing instead of moving over to the slow lane.
I didn't ridicule anyone who is actually "making an effort." I ridiculed people who are actually making a minimal effort to improve conditioning, but making a huge effort to look the part.
And I don't want to encourage them at all. My pool is too crowded to put up with them trying to swim in the fast lane when they can't keep up. There's a reason our lanes are divided into slow, medium, fast and very fast, and that is to designate a place for them to swim where they won't interfere with the people who really are making an effort (and who, by the way, usually know how to use whatever toys they bring).
Some of us are in this for our own conditioning. I didn't join the campfire girls.
Originally posted by aquageek
However, the fact that someone is making an effort to improve their physical conditioning should be applauded, not ridiculed. Maybe a word of encouragement or invitation to participate with other Masters would help that person stay in the pool.
Perhaps I should take them by the hand and lead them in a poolside rendition of Kum Ba Yah.
I didn't ridicule people who are making an effort to improve their physical condition. I ridiculed posers who have no idea how to use the toys, or what they're for, who buy them because they think that the equipment makes the sport. I ridiculed those people who think that because they buy the toys, they are now "swimmers" and should tie up the fast and very fast lanes with their thrashing instead of moving over to the slow lane.
I didn't ridicule anyone who is actually "making an effort." I ridiculed people who are actually making a minimal effort to improve conditioning, but making a huge effort to look the part.
And I don't want to encourage them at all. My pool is too crowded to put up with them trying to swim in the fast lane when they can't keep up. There's a reason our lanes are divided into slow, medium, fast and very fast, and that is to designate a place for them to swim where they won't interfere with the people who really are making an effort (and who, by the way, usually know how to use whatever toys they bring).
Some of us are in this for our own conditioning. I didn't join the campfire girls.
