Just curious, does anyone use swimming devices during practice? Besides the standard kick board or pull buoy and paddles? When I work out with the Senior group on my USS team we always warm up with the snorkle. Usually consists of 8x100's on 1:20 then we follow up warm up with a set with snorkle.
I just started using the snorkle a month ago and find it somewhat difficult to use, although I am getting used to it. I have to fight the urge to want to turn my head and breath and doing flip turns can be a challenge especially if I am winded. There have been a few times I have had to stop due to choking on water. That being said, the snorkle does work on on proper head position in the water. Another device we use is the tempo trainer. I really like this device because it works on the arm speed and gets the muscle turnover burned into memory when swimming without tempo trainer.
Greg
I use a few different types of paddles. Different paddles give different sensations, I like the different sensation to wake up my hands. A variety of different feels to get better feel of the water.
I also do some fist drills, the finger drills with one finger, 2,3 etc. The OK drill and some sculling. All so that my hands will learn hpow to grab some water.
As for fist gloves (and fist drills) I used to do a fair bit of them and use it in my classes. However with a lot of time I found that the gloves actually made me push down MORE with my extended arm. The intended purpose is that pushing down with your arm to hold your head up doesn't work with the fistgloves. I find that true to an extent, but the response seems to be that I just tend to push down EVEN more.
So I still use some fist drills in the context of what I do, just not as much as I used to.
I use a few different types of paddles. Different paddles give different sensations, I like the different sensation to wake up my hands. A variety of different feels to get better feel of the water.
I also do some fist drills, the finger drills with one finger, 2,3 etc. The OK drill and some sculling. All so that my hands will learn hpow to grab some water.
As for fist gloves (and fist drills) I used to do a fair bit of them and use it in my classes. However with a lot of time I found that the gloves actually made me push down MORE with my extended arm. The intended purpose is that pushing down with your arm to hold your head up doesn't work with the fistgloves. I find that true to an extent, but the response seems to be that I just tend to push down EVEN more.
So I still use some fist drills in the context of what I do, just not as much as I used to.
