I'm curious as to which is more common -- being slower with a pull buoy or being faster, and why some people are one way rather than the other? Personally, I am far slower with a pull buoy. I attribute this to my natural buoyancy (ahem) as well as having a fairly strong kick when I want to, although I often feel as though I am not kicking very hard, so I'm not sure how much of a factor that is.
Anyway, being slow with a pull buoy becomes very frustrating in practice -- it's hard to keep up with lanemates who I am normally faster than or equal to. Not sure if there is anything to be done about that.
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I'm just about as fast if not faster at a normal practice pace with a pull bouy because I rarely kick during sets. At a hard/semi race pace where I actually engage the size 15's, then the pull bouy slows me down a tad, but only by about 3-5 seconds per hundred. I also drop about 2 strokes per length at the same time without the kick, go fig.
I love pull sets, my coaches never believed in them and felt they cause injury so we were really never allowed to use them. Now that I practice on my own I find some days I do some pretty heavy pull sets. The only problem with it is that I start to lose the thing after about 200m and I have to stop and reset it.
I'm just about as fast if not faster at a normal practice pace with a pull bouy because I rarely kick during sets. At a hard/semi race pace where I actually engage the size 15's, then the pull bouy slows me down a tad, but only by about 3-5 seconds per hundred. I also drop about 2 strokes per length at the same time without the kick, go fig.
I love pull sets, my coaches never believed in them and felt they cause injury so we were really never allowed to use them. Now that I practice on my own I find some days I do some pretty heavy pull sets. The only problem with it is that I start to lose the thing after about 200m and I have to stop and reset it.
