I've seen some swimmers, swim with a band and a small towel tied to the band, dragging behind. What's that all about?
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Re: swimming with towel between your ankles? [zedzded]
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I've seen some swimmers, swim with a band and a small towel tied to the band, dragging behind. What's that all about?that is what you see in the movie "We are Triathletes" when rinny is training... its a ghetto drag chute. siri uses that for her top athletes soooo guess it works
Re: swimming with towel between your ankles? [synthetic]
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zedzded wrote:
I've seen some swimmers, swim with a band and a small towel tied to the band, dragging behind. What's that all about?that is what you see in the movie "We are Triathletes" when rinny is training... its a ghetto drag chute. siri uses that for her top athletes soooo guess it works
Why though? More drag = improves your catch?
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I often see junior club swimmers at the pool using drag shorts over their speedos. I never really got it the idea. I mean if you're getting better then you'll just swim faster and as a consequence more, why would you need to increase your drag artificially to slow yourself down? I don't see it working like weight lifting where you lift heavier when you get better.. or does it?
Re: swimming with towel between your ankles? [zedzded]
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they probably just want to extend the lap duration
Re: swimming with towel between your ankles? [surrey85]
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A while back I saw a youth squad using drag chutes & paddles, so I guess they believe it works. Looked pretty time consuming too, getting all that gear sorted for a few laps. Is it still common place for club swimmers to swim against bungees attached to them?
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Re: swimming with towel between your ankles? [Jorgan]
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AG swimmers still use bungees, chutes, and buckets. We used buckets in college because they’re cheap (paint bucket tied to a rope around your waist). It’s just a way to build strength. A lot of times we would use it on a day when we were doing stations instead of a regular practice. Hard AF to swim with.
I don’t see any AG swimmers using extra suits for drag anymore, though. Granted, it might just be because I live in Florida now (originally from MA) and they don’t want the tan lines.
I don’t see any AG swimmers using extra suits for drag anymore, though. Granted, it might just be because I live in Florida now (originally from MA) and they don’t want the tan lines.
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Re: swimming with towel between your ankles? [zedzded]
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We did this in HS and College, and I still do it once in a great while just to show off. It has no real purpose in my swim training these days.
A band on your legs forces you to maintain proper body position - Legs, rotation, and breathing. If any of those are off you sink quickly. Once that is corrected, you need to compensate for the loss of propulsion from your legs by improving your catch, follow through, and turnover. Once that is in place you put a towel between your legs to add drag. Now everything you had to do to compensate for the loss of legs is multiplied. The only thing you can really do is improve turnover. That causes you arms and shoulders to fatigue very quickly. You also go into oxygen debt quicker, even breathing every stroke.
Since most on this board have problems with a band, the towel isn't really something the majority should consider. Its a graduate level drill with limited purpose that most aren't ready for anyway.
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A band on your legs forces you to maintain proper body position - Legs, rotation, and breathing. If any of those are off you sink quickly. Once that is corrected, you need to compensate for the loss of propulsion from your legs by improving your catch, follow through, and turnover. Once that is in place you put a towel between your legs to add drag. Now everything you had to do to compensate for the loss of legs is multiplied. The only thing you can really do is improve turnover. That causes you arms and shoulders to fatigue very quickly. You also go into oxygen debt quicker, even breathing every stroke.
Since most on this board have problems with a band, the towel isn't really something the majority should consider. Its a graduate level drill with limited purpose that most aren't ready for anyway.
"...the street finds its own uses for things"
swimming every am next to h.s swim team. girls and boys always have to have drag suit on. have to.
and drag chutes often used all thru the year. all kind of exercises done with those.
coaches here know what they're doing, i think. so i'm sure it's more the norm than the opposite.
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and drag chutes often used all thru the year. all kind of exercises done with those.
coaches here know what they're doing, i think. so i'm sure it's more the norm than the opposite.
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