I'll chime in with my own reasons fo doing them. However more often than not I don't do them.
1. The reason I often don't do them is because the touch turn seems to be the easier option. Thus I am trying to do more flip turns on the basis that if I avoid the easier option it gives me a better work out. the other day I was timing myself over 1000m and at about 600m I got too tired to do the flip turns. So I guess that doing flip turns is the harder option and thus that is what I should be training at.
2. I'm lucky enough to have a 50m pool to train in, but it gets very crowded (normally about 10-12 people in the lane at any give time and often folks just handing round the shallow end which makes it imposiible to do flips turns without creaming someone. Yes this is France and the swimming lane etiquette is not known, respected nor even enforced by the lifeguards. So normally the turns are less important for me than those swimming in the short pool. However when I go to the 25m pool I tend to do the flip turns more because once I'm in the rhythm of doing them it seems to help keep me in the rhythm of swimming better.
3. I'm getting slightly faster at swimming now and the touch turns can often impact my hand/wrist a little too much if I'm swimming at a fast pace
4. Cramps. I used to get a lot of feet cramps while swimming. These would often occur from pushing off the wall with my feet which I tend to to hard on flip turns than touch turns. Thus I avoided flip turns. However now I'm swimming more and my daily water intake and diet has improved a bit the cramps hardly ever appear. However doing the flip turns would soon let me know if I'm about to get cramp problems which would warn me that I'm dehydrating
5. Goggles. I had terrrible problems leaking goggles ever since I started to swim. I've just about now got a make/model which works for me. However pushing hard off the wall from a flip turn seemed to provoke the leakage more than touch turns, hence I avoided flip turns. Now I do flip turns to expose any goggle problems so I know whether I have truly fixed the problems or not.
6. If I don't do flip turns then I can't keep up with the train at club trianing sessions. Then I ruin the run for those behind me.
7. I get the feeling that doing them makes me more comfortable in the water and more aware of my orientation and surroundings. I can always do with a little more confidence in the water.
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1. The reason I often don't do them is because the touch turn seems to be the easier option. Thus I am trying to do more flip turns on the basis that if I avoid the easier option it gives me a better work out. the other day I was timing myself over 1000m and at about 600m I got too tired to do the flip turns. So I guess that doing flip turns is the harder option and thus that is what I should be training at.
2. I'm lucky enough to have a 50m pool to train in, but it gets very crowded (normally about 10-12 people in the lane at any give time and often folks just handing round the shallow end which makes it imposiible to do flips turns without creaming someone. Yes this is France and the swimming lane etiquette is not known, respected nor even enforced by the lifeguards. So normally the turns are less important for me than those swimming in the short pool. However when I go to the 25m pool I tend to do the flip turns more because once I'm in the rhythm of doing them it seems to help keep me in the rhythm of swimming better.
3. I'm getting slightly faster at swimming now and the touch turns can often impact my hand/wrist a little too much if I'm swimming at a fast pace
4. Cramps. I used to get a lot of feet cramps while swimming. These would often occur from pushing off the wall with my feet which I tend to to hard on flip turns than touch turns. Thus I avoided flip turns. However now I'm swimming more and my daily water intake and diet has improved a bit the cramps hardly ever appear. However doing the flip turns would soon let me know if I'm about to get cramp problems which would warn me that I'm dehydrating
5. Goggles. I had terrrible problems leaking goggles ever since I started to swim. I've just about now got a make/model which works for me. However pushing hard off the wall from a flip turn seemed to provoke the leakage more than touch turns, hence I avoided flip turns. Now I do flip turns to expose any goggle problems so I know whether I have truly fixed the problems or not.
6. If I don't do flip turns then I can't keep up with the train at club trianing sessions. Then I ruin the run for those behind me.
7. I get the feeling that doing them makes me more comfortable in the water and more aware of my orientation and surroundings. I can always do with a little more confidence in the water.
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Hawaii Qualification Analysis