What is the current thinking on flippers / fins? (ie, professional coaching recommendations). It seems like their use is very pervasive these days but when I was a swimmer growing up (US Swimming) we did not use them...and I swam with some kids that went to Olympic trials...so it was a good team.
My masters team uses them ALL the time. They don't do kick sets without them. They even use the flippers for main sets at times, and some swimmers sneak them on to keep up with their lane, which messes up the lane order (and in fact they should swim in a slower lane if they cannot make the workout in the faster lane without flippers - IMO). And they use them when they are slow in other strokes (ie, IM's, back, butterfly). Some of these swimmers have mastered kicking with fins (esp those that use huge scuba fins), but they can't kick worth beans without the fins.
Is there any research/articles on fin usage? What do the top swimmers do?
Thanks!
swimsb:
I agree with Brian that you need to fill us in about this fin use in context to your total workout on both a daily and weekly basis before we can say you have FDS.
Another question is how are you doing the 125 IM swim with fins? Are you doing a rolling 100 of strokes meaning a 100 Fly on 1, 100 Back on 2, 100 *** on 3, and 100 Free on 4 and doing it two times through adding a 25 for each stroke and doing the exact IM order as you go through? What kind of fins are you using? And how is your breastroke kick using the fins?
swimsb:
I agree with Brian that you need to fill us in about this fin use in context to your total workout on both a daily and weekly basis before we can say you have FDS.
Another question is how are you doing the 125 IM swim with fins? Are you doing a rolling 100 of strokes meaning a 100 Fly on 1, 100 Back on 2, 100 *** on 3, and 100 Free on 4 and doing it two times through adding a 25 for each stroke and doing the exact IM order as you go through? What kind of fins are you using? And how is your breastroke kick using the fins?
