I have recently started using a Finis Tempo Trainer, and have found it invaluable to help me do fast sets. Are there others out there who have used these? Are there ways to use them in a diagnostic sense? (e.g. if you keep decreasing the time interval between strokes by 10% and find the place where your time stops decreasing by 10%, does this give you any useful information?) I really like how they help me keep up with hard workouts, but wonder if there are other ways in which they can be useful.
Anyone out there have experience with these they'd like to share?
Thanks for the replies. Karen, we're loaded with Blue Lobsters up here, but in my 25 years here I've yet to see a live moose in the state! JH, I checked out the Total Immersion use, but I find I have not had success getting faster with their approach. Arthur, the info you provided is along the lines of what I was looking for. I have noticed that I can get a range of speeds with one tempo, and am playing with that. Thanks.
The biggest benefit of this device for me so far, though, comes from how it affects my workouts. For me, one of my biggest issues in workouts is maintaining mental focus to swim fast, avoiding both the propensity to focus on how tiring it is and the mental exhaustion over a long period of trying to maintain that focus. With the tempo trainer I am able to swim faster for longer periods without feeling mentally tired. Just responding to the beep is so much easier somehow than trying to push myself alone to the same physical limits.
Thanks for the replies. Karen, we're loaded with Blue Lobsters up here, but in my 25 years here I've yet to see a live moose in the state! JH, I checked out the Total Immersion use, but I find I have not had success getting faster with their approach. Arthur, the info you provided is along the lines of what I was looking for. I have noticed that I can get a range of speeds with one tempo, and am playing with that. Thanks.
The biggest benefit of this device for me so far, though, comes from how it affects my workouts. For me, one of my biggest issues in workouts is maintaining mental focus to swim fast, avoiding both the propensity to focus on how tiring it is and the mental exhaustion over a long period of trying to maintain that focus. With the tempo trainer I am able to swim faster for longer periods without feeling mentally tired. Just responding to the beep is so much easier somehow than trying to push myself alone to the same physical limits.
