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How You Can Improve Your Swim Kick with Fins

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Swimmers never want to rely on their training equipment too much, because at the end of the day, you have to count on your own body to get you through races successfully. But training tools do have a necessary and permanent place in any competitive swimmer’s workouts. For those of you looking to improve your kick strength and technique, swim fins just might be the tool you need to help take your freestyle, backstroke, or butterfly to the next level.  Swim Fins This is excellent news, because fins are a favorite among most swimmers, partially because of the hero speeds you can reach. Here are a few ways swim fins and a strong kick can help your swimming performance. Increase Leg Stamina and Strength Fins not only help you swim super fast through the water, they are also a tool of resistance. If you’re using swim fins correctly, you are working the biggest muscles in your body to build strength and stamina. Swim fins don’t allow you to drag your legs behind you. You have to

5 Top Pieces of Gear Competitive Swimmers Use to Train

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Ask any competitive swimmer and they’ll tell you that swim practice isn’t just about swimming lap after lap or staring at the black line on the bottom of the pool for a few hours. Training gear is essential if you want to improve your times, strength, endurance, and technique.  Swim Shops When swimmers first start using swim equipment, it becomes fairly clear where any weaknesses may lie and what areas of their stroke could use more attention. Fortunately, proper use of training gear is an effective way to improve your swimming technique. Here are the top five pieces of training equipment competitive swimmers often use throughout their season and all year long. Pull Buoy For swimmers who want to work on upper body strength, a pull buoy is an essential piece of equipment. A pull buoy is a leg float held between the thighs to provide buoyancy to the lower body. This simple piece of foam equipment is used for arm pulling drills and stroke correction. A pull buoy encourages you to focus on