What would you consider as the most important reason to include kicking in your workouts?
Also, what do you see as the main difference and purpose between the exercises kicking with a board and kicking without a board?
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I have done both, kicking with a board and without one. I have come to like kicking without a board better than with one.
1) Doesn't stress my shoulders(yes, I am a member of the shoulder surgery club)
2) As gbrain said(when he isn't verbally slapping wolf) it does allow one to work on body position
3) Kicking without a board lets me to work on fast flip turns, like one wants when racing
4) Kicking w/o a board also lets me work on my underwater dolphin kicks for freestyle,fly, backstroke. Ok, mainly for backstroke. You can do work them with a board off of the turns but I find that it is better without one.
5) I can work more angles of my kick without a board than I can with a board.
I have done both, kicking with a board and without one. I have come to like kicking without a board better than with one.
1) Doesn't stress my shoulders(yes, I am a member of the shoulder surgery club)
2) As gbrain said(when he isn't verbally slapping wolf) it does allow one to work on body position
3) Kicking without a board lets me to work on fast flip turns, like one wants when racing
4) Kicking w/o a board also lets me work on my underwater dolphin kicks for freestyle,fly, backstroke. Ok, mainly for backstroke. You can do work them with a board off of the turns but I find that it is better without one.
5) I can work more angles of my kick without a board than I can with a board.
