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Five Ways Fins Can Improve Your Swimming (Without Using Them For Drills)

Five Ways Fins Can Improve Your Swimming (Without Using Them For Drills)

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Aug 23, 2019
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Perhaps the single best tool you can buy to help you develop your freestyle swimming is a good pair of swimming fins (also commonly called flippers). Swimming with fins gives you extra propulsion and support in the water, allowing you to focus on developing a particular area of the stroke much more easily.

Elite swimmers use fins for "overspeed work", al…

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