I checked myself and I swam a 50 meter swim in ...35.25 with fins
yet! I did it again 34.35, 34.83. Now I did a pool side start..(in the pool from the wall )not a real Olympic dive in start and I was "cheating" with my fins..and fiddleing with the watch as I timed myself and lost a couple of seconds so my time was actually a bit better but hey at a half a century I need some extra help! The womens world record is 24:82. The mens 21:87 . Now lets see how fast we are at 50 meter freestyle. If you use a pool side start put (ps) after your time.= pool start.If you use fins put (f) after your time or (psf) =pool start fins.
If you leap in with a person timing you ..use no abbeviation. That would be olympic style and equal to the real world record times. Check your pool lenght for meters or yards. This is for fun.. Its fine to use fins ect ..just to see how close to these world class swims you can get and get a real idea of how fast these top swimmers are.. Remember that in real racing theres no fins..and theres a leap in start. Just give a god try and if you use fins note. A pool side start will not give the same times as a dive in start..not everyone can do a dive in start because of pool rules.
or other things.. just state (ps) pool side start. And remember a pool side start will take about 2 seconds off your swim time if you had did a leap in start so add it in for your own estimate of how fast you are. "READY...GO!"
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I like the fins because I can go "fast " with them. I did say I use them and that I am a "cheater". On the day I tested my time I was hurting a bit and could have done a bit better. The fins are good exercise for my legs and body which is why I swim. I do feel I am becoming too addictive to them and when I take them off my kick is strange. I feel like I am moving my legs a hundred miles a hour at first and slow....ly crawing across the pool. I will have to do a time test without the fins freestyle..Probably going to be 40 seconds + for 50 meters. I have read here that you can use them too much and I probably am. I don't compete however and as I say swim for the heath benifits, but I do like to try and keep up with other swimmers. To tell the truth I am faster then most with the fins. I have on occasion seen some people "beating me" and then seen that they were finless which tells me that they really could swim fast and I was wondering what the average swimmer's time would be as we all know the world record times.
I like the fins because I can go "fast " with them. I did say I use them and that I am a "cheater". On the day I tested my time I was hurting a bit and could have done a bit better. The fins are good exercise for my legs and body which is why I swim. I do feel I am becoming too addictive to them and when I take them off my kick is strange. I feel like I am moving my legs a hundred miles a hour at first and slow....ly crawing across the pool. I will have to do a time test without the fins freestyle..Probably going to be 40 seconds + for 50 meters. I have read here that you can use them too much and I probably am. I don't compete however and as I say swim for the heath benifits, but I do like to try and keep up with other swimmers. To tell the truth I am faster then most with the fins. I have on occasion seen some people "beating me" and then seen that they were finless which tells me that they really could swim fast and I was wondering what the average swimmer's time would be as we all know the world record times.
