Not Recommended

1. Board Shorts – many novice male swimmers think that figure hugging bathers should only beworn by more serious ‘professional’ swimmers but nothing could be further from the truth! Baggyshorts add a huge amount of drag and pull your body position down low in the water – this is the last thing you need when working on your swimming. Switch to some proper swimming bathers and give your stroke an instant lift – literally!
2. Kick Boards – we find that kick boards are not effective training aids for most adult swimmers.If you suffer from poor body position and a weak kick, using a buoyant kick board at the front of the stroke is only going to exacerbate this and place you in a very uneconomical position with your front end lifted. We prefer to practise kicking sets without the use of a float and with or without fins in a more specific torpedo or side-lying position in the water.

     The training sessions in Appendix C show you examples of how to introduce many of these tools into your training sessions.