All about Swimming Fins

Fins are a swimming aid worn on the feet that come in several styles, shapes and sizes. Fins are made to boost your lower body strength, enhance ankle flexibility and allow you to swim faster. There are many types of fins in numerous styles and lengths to suit everyone’s needs.

Fin Lengths

Fins come in various lengths; each length of fin has a varied purpose

Short fins

These are best suited for training. These fins are more natural to swim with and so enable your natural kick to be worked instead of changing your stroke completely.

Long Fins or Split Fins

These fins are not great for swimming training and are best avoided. This length needs slow movements. They are very good if you are just using fins for ankle flexibility.

Monofin

It is a one-blade fin that combines the feet jointly, just like a mermaid tail. These fins are good for difficult workouts where you are trying to desperately increase your lower body strength or also for developing your butterfly technique. These are ideal to enjoy swimming like a Mermaid while having great exercise.

Advantages of using Fins

Besides developing your lower body strength, fins also have other benefits for swimmers.

·         Ankle flexibility is an amazing advantage of swimming with fins as the fins put additional force on your ankles. By enhancing the firmness in the ankle your butterfly leg kick will be much more effective.

·         Fins enable you to easily maintain a better body position so you can pay attention to other areas of your technique that need improvement, may this be body rotation, breathing pattern or arm technique etc.

 

Helpful Tips to use Fins

·         Work the distance off the wall when curving. You will actually feel the difference that your fins make and over time you can see the improvements in your swimming.

·         It is wrongly assumed that fins are not suited for use when swimming breaststroke and are to work the lower body muscle groups only. You can swim breaststroke with butterfly legs which really works your arms and helps to develop your technique.

·         Avoid diving while using fins. When you dive off the side of the pool with fins you can’t get grip so you are at risk of slipping and injuring yourself.

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