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25 Comments
Has using a pull buoy improved your swimming?
The pull buoy makes me float too high in the water my feet start to stick out of the water. It looks and feels strange. Where did I go wrong?
Started using the pull buoy, doubled my speed, improved my body position in the pool, and made be more conscious of my flutter kick
I'm 63 years old and returning to swimming after after quite a time lapse for weight control and general fitness. It's worked for me before. I had bilateral hip replacement in 2018 so I thought I'd give the pull buoy a try. i find the pull buoy gives me extra buoyancy in my legs and use it for 70% of the laps I do. As the presenter said I do not want to be too reliant on it so do the other 30% without it.
Great video. The presenter really understands the difficulties for beginners. My legs naturally sink so this item might help.
I used a pull buoy to learn bilateral breathing. Not using the legs allowed me to breathe every 3 strokes and now my weak side is my strong side.
Until this video, I thought using the paddles and a buoy together was a sign of my weakness, and here I’m finding out that I’ve been doing something right intuitively. I really didn’t start developing my Swimmers Lats until I started doing this several months ago. I also like the way the buoy makes you feel like you have a wet suit on. Well I guess I’ll be keeping this “strength” training in my workouts because I love swimming with a buoy and paddles. In fact, last swim session I did 2,000 yards straight with this set up because we didn’t know how long the swim lanes would be available at the community pool. Boy was I glad I knew how to do this technique because I still got in a great workout just before they kicked the lap swimmers out.
As far as rotation, to me it seems to make rotation easier to do! Maybe it’s because I’m going through my mental checklist the whole time I’m in the pool.
Thanks GTN
Back in the day when I/we (competitive swimming) used the Pull buoy in tandem with armpaddles to increase upper body strenght and technique (coach screaming at the pool edge 😀 ). I use it now during open water training, just letting the legs rest while building upper strenght/endurance… relaxing 🙂
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Just starting my Tri journey, and loving all the GTN content 🥳! Making lots of gainz quickly. Y’all are the best 💪🏽🤙🏽!
pull buoy addict
When l was doing Ultramarathons l used a pull bouy a lot. Mainly to compensate for 'shattered' legs. Now l use it as part of the warm up or drills.
For conditioning or strength training, perhaps about 500 meters in a 3000 meters workout.
When I was younger and less buoyant, I used the pull buoy for many of my longer training sets. After a while I found that I was :30 sec faster over 500 m. When swimming in salt water it didn’t make a difference, but fresh water OW swims were significantly slower. Thank goodness wetsuits became standard equipment in the late 90’s. I confess it became a crutch, however it did allow me to work on my shoulders, rotation and glide. In my 40’s and 50’s I learned to level my body and use a 4 beat crossover and 2 beat kick for my OW swims. It was a great tool for strengthening my shoulders refining my stroke and allowing more distance work in the pool. Just remember to never let it become a crutch!
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I’m a terrible swimmer, sink like a rock. I swim with hand paddles and pull buoy just for the shoulder work and cross training.
I wish that I have open swimpool
Yes
I use the pull bouy with paddles, before the main set & as cool down. However, I see that it would be very good to use it without paddles. Very very good video
Pool buoy seems to have helped my form a lot. I have had no real training but began swimming due to covid. Great exercise, I lost 30 pounds and I'm hooked on swimming. One thing I don't understand is I seem to be much faster using the pool buoy than with kick…..
I have never used a pullboy, will be getting one! 😀
Got a pull buoy to help with my arms & shoulder movements, [taking out the thinking about legs.] in March last year. Still haven't touched water…..
Having learnt FC breathing to one side it’s been great for core strength/balance improvement when used breathing to the weaker side, which then helps with bi-lat without the buoy
I absolutely love the pull buoy but I use it sparingly to avoid becoming reliant on it. I am not 100% sure why but I struggle a lot with the kick. I have had my stroke and kick analyzed multiple times and am working on improving my kick, but it is a challenge to say the least.
Haven't swam in over a year d/t covid. But when I was doing more triathlon focused training, I loved my pull buoy. It always felt nice to give the legs a break during blocks of heavy running/cycling. Plus, my arms is where I needed to focus anyway.