Has any adult-onset swimmer succeeded in increasing ankle flexibility?
Former Member
My ankle inflexibility seems to be a huge drag to my freestyle and backstroke. In my attempts to increase ankle flexibility, I have employed a couple of methods suggested elsewhere in this forum - (1) assuming the "child's tv-watching" position, with my lower legs folded beneath my buttocks and (2) using fins.
However, after three months, I don't seem to have gained any more flexibility in the ankle joints. Have other adult-onset swimmers been able to gain ankle flexibility through these methods or otherwise?
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My ankles are extremely inflexible in the direction needed for flutter kick. My flutter kick is horribly slow and doesn't help me at all in freestyle (I am 10 seconds per 100 faster if I swim freestyle with a pull buoy).
I have used Zoomers for at least 15 years; they haven't helped my flexibility one bit. :cry: (They do, however, make me faster and they're great fun.)
On the other hand, my feet naturally rotate outward (like Allen, I "walk like a duck") which means my best stroke is breaststroke.
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My ankles are extremely inflexible in the direction needed for flutter kick. My flutter kick is horribly slow and doesn't help me at all in freestyle (I am 10 seconds per 100 faster if I swim freestyle with a pull buoy).
I have used Zoomers for at least 15 years; they haven't helped my flexibility one bit. :cry: (They do, however, make me faster and they're great fun.)
On the other hand, my feet naturally rotate outward (like Allen, I "walk like a duck") which means my best stroke is breaststroke.
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