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?
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Although I do some swimming and kicking with the tempo trainer set at varying stroke rates, recently I have been using it differently. Since I train alone, I don't have anyone to time my sprints or do starts practice with. So I use the TT as a starter and timer. For example, If I am doing 25s and have a goal of getting my feet on the wall at opposite end in 12 seconds, I will set it to beep every 3 seconds. Then by using it as a starter, I need to get my feet on the wall at the other end at the 4th beep. Once I attain this goal then I will set it faster, with a goal of say 11.8, and so on. I do 50s in much the same way. I used this on free, back and fly last year and swam PB's in the 50 free, 100 back and 200 back at Nationals. I have started doing this again to prepare for Nationals at Mesa.
Wow! That is an awesome use of the tempo trainer for start and sprint practice.
Although I do some swimming and kicking with the tempo trainer set at varying stroke rates, recently I have been using it differently. Since I train alone, I don't have anyone to time my sprints or do starts practice with. So I use the TT as a starter and timer. For example, If I am doing 25s and have a goal of getting my feet on the wall at opposite end in 12 seconds, I will set it to beep every 3 seconds. Then by using it as a starter, I need to get my feet on the wall at the other end at the 4th beep. Once I attain this goal then I will set it faster, with a goal of say 11.8, and so on. I do 50s in much the same way. I used this on free, back and fly last year and swam PB's in the 50 free, 100 back and 200 back at Nationals. I have started doing this again to prepare for Nationals at Mesa.
Wow! That is an awesome use of the tempo trainer for start and sprint practice.
