I bought a Finis snorkel a few years back but I just do not enjoy swimming with it. I find I hold my breath more per 25 than I do in an underwater or hypoxic 25. I haven't even tried doing a flip turn with it yet.
Anyone else go through a similar adjustment phase when they started working with their snorkel? How did you get used to it?
It is a very long storey. I have written about it many times. Lots of mileage as a kid and a teen. Lots of cycling, lots of running...
Was a middle distance swimmer until age of 17. Sick then started swimming sprints. Used technique with very little swimming. Played lots of waterpolo. Had many ups and downs never won a medal at the Olympics. Won a Silver at the Pan Am Games in 1955, beaten by Clarke Scholes.
Became a Marathon Swimmer in 1963. Raced in marathon swims for about 10 years. Now that is when I trained hard, reason needed to win Money.
It is a very long storey. I have written about it many times. Lots of mileage as a kid and a teen. Lots of cycling, lots of running...
Was a middle distance swimmer until age of 17. Sick then started swimming sprints. Used technique with very little swimming. Played lots of waterpolo. Had many ups and downs never won a medal at the Olympics. Won a Silver at the Pan Am Games in 1955, beaten by Clarke Scholes.
Became a Marathon Swimmer in 1963. Raced in marathon swims for about 10 years. Now that is when I trained hard, reason needed to win Money.
OK, I'm with you on the value of cross training. I even found that when I got kicked out of the swim lane for the noodler's class at 9AM, there was actual value in joining their class for extra water time. :afraid: But, seriously, doing everything the lady on the CD said to do- but at triple the reps. to every noodler's one (if they were lucky) rep. really gave me a good extra workout.
Now, waterpolo is an AWESOME way to train for swimming. It definitely builds endurance!
The worst thing they could use - a kickboard. Next a Pull Bouy.
Rather than just your bald assertions, do you have any reasons these things are bad?
When I was in HS and college -- and a much faster kicker than now -- I used a kickboard exclusively. That's just the way almost everyone trained their kick at the time.
Nowadays I split about evenly with and without a board. Kicking without a board is better to include hypoxic training (probably a bad idea in your book too, right?) and to better simulate actual race conditions. I use a kickboard if I am doing aerobic/endurance kicking for general leg conditioning, or if I just don't want to have to worry about hypoxic training.
I see lots of people who say a kickboard is bad because body position is bad. I think that's bunk. Sure, the body position isn't exactly the same but from the abs down it is probably pretty similar. And in any event, for training the legs, it doesn't matter.
The most useless kicking exercise (IMO) is doing dolphin kick on your back while on the surface of the water. That's completely different than doing it underwater, and it also doesn't match anything you do while racing.
If you are hung up on body position while using a board, then I would recommend getting a FINIS alignment kickboard and using a FINIS snorkel with it. (And no, I am not a paid FINIS rep.)
If you are hung up on body position while using a board, then I would recommend getting a FINIS alignment kickboard and using a FINIS snorkel with it. (And no, I am not a paid FINIS rep.)
That's a great way to do it for those with bad lower backs and don't want to put an uncomfortable arch in the back.
I am very happy to see others use these gimmicky gadgets. There is a thing called wasted time. Do I really have to come back and race again to show you that there is an easier way. The easier way is full stroke swimming.Cue the Rocky theme. And don't sprain anything you two.:)
I am very happy to see others use these gimmicky gadgets. There is a thing called wasted time. Do I really have to come back and race again to show you that there is an easier way. The easier way is full stroke swimming.
I do just fine on a heavy diet of kicking.
Do you really think you are swimming well because you are using a kick board.??? I have heard all this kick stuff before from a few others.
I don't use a kickboard because I do most of my kicking with the snorkel(which is what this thread is about),but re:kicking-every month in Swimming World they have an interview with a coach and every month they ask how important is kicking in their program.Every month the answer is very important.Some of these coaches are high volume,some are high intensity,but all are pro-kicking.
