Thread: Anyone else swimming??

I don't know if the fins would work with backstroke or not... I guess you could try it; I don't see why it wouldn't. I have used it for freestyle and freestyle kick (using a kickboard -- due to shoulder problems, I try not to swim too many freestyle laps). I swim about an hour each time/4x a week.

That's funny; our lap pool doesn't have any rule against using fins and in fact, since I started using them, I've noticed that a lot of the *serious* swimmers have them. There is a very *serious* school swim team which practices at our pool right before our community swim team and they ALL have flippers. Never noticed that before!

A note: You *do* need to focus on your kick in the beginning. It needs to become a "full leg" kick, rather than just kicking from the knee! Imagine that you are a scuba diver. You want that full-leg motion and you will be AMAZED how hard this works your thighs and glutes (behind)!
And you WILL go faster, but you will end up swimming MORE laps in the same amount of time, so that balances out as well.
HTH,
Summer