Ray,
Since you’re not getting a lot of feedback, I’ll chime in again. And as I mentioned before I’m not a big fan.
The times I’ve used swim chutes I found the strap somewhat interfered with my freestyle kick. And for some reason it tended to drop my hips, possibly because of where the chute hangs behind and down in the water.
The local age group team infrequently uses chutes and buckets for sprint resistance swims (sets of 25’s and 50’s) or as punishment (200 fly with a bucket is not a fun swim).
My understanding of the value of chutes training was to increase strength by adding resistance, somewhat similar to pulling with paddles. However, the Swim Resistance Chute site states “The Swim Chute can actually increase your range of motion and flexibility” so I guess I must be doing something wrong.
Ray,
Since you’re not getting a lot of feedback, I’ll chime in again. And as I mentioned before I’m not a big fan.
The times I’ve used swim chutes I found the strap somewhat interfered with my freestyle kick. And for some reason it tended to drop my hips, possibly because of where the chute hangs behind and down in the water.
The local age group team infrequently uses chutes and buckets for sprint resistance swims (sets of 25’s and 50’s) or as punishment (200 fly with a bucket is not a fun swim).
My understanding of the value of chutes training was to increase strength by adding resistance, somewhat similar to pulling with paddles. However, the Swim Resistance Chute site states “The Swim Chute can actually increase your range of motion and flexibility” so I guess I must be doing something wrong.
