Pull bands

[KJ89]

Anyone know where you can get the pull bands from?

[Chris]

Anyone know where you can get the pull bands from?
You tried making one out of an old car inner tube?

Chris

[Breezer]

Yeah thats what we used to do

[Chris]

Yeah thats what we used to do
Great minds think alike :king:

[crawler]

cheapskates and I bet your mothers' knitted your first pairs of trunks too.............. ;)

[Chris]

cheapskates and I bet your mothers' knitted your first pairs of trunks too.............. ;)
She still does (has to, I can't afford training bathers because of my Fastskin habit!!!)

[Breezer]

cheapskates and I bet your mothers' knitted your first pairs of trunks too.............. ;)

Dont be daft, my grandmother does that

[Natasha]

I don't think there is anything wrong with using an inner tube from a car tyre at all! My club just had a swim clinic today with Suki Brownsdow - four times Olympian. We spent two hours in the pool and one hour talking about nutrition. We use the pull bands in the pool session and she just advised us to go and get an inner tube for free from a garage and cut it up - and if it's good enough for an ex Olympian it should be good enough for us!

[matt]

I sometimes nick Bootie's band thing from his pullbuoy and I do believe he has an inner tube as well. It can get a bit uncomfortable though if your feet get twisted.

Does anyone wear a pair of bathers with a sponge tied to them?

[Natasha]

Does anyone wear a pair of bathers with a sponge tied to them?

Can't say I do.

[Katie]

I think we're going to start doing that soon. We've been training in T-shirts this week, I don't really like it but it feels great when you swim afterwards without them. My coach is also looking into getting us buckets to attach to ourselves when we swim, meaning that we'll probably do about 1 length every hour. :)

[matt]

a bucket! That will be well hard. When I tried out Jonny's sponge I found that really really hard + it's not really practical at our club because they take up soo much room.

[Natasha]

I want to start t-shirt training again. We used to do it ages and ages ago. But wouldn't it have an effect on your stroke?

[Katie]

Yeah I find it does unless I roll the sleeves up a bit. I know that might seem like cheating but if I don't I find myself rolling too much in the water and I can't get my arm entry right.

[matt]

That's apparently the reason why we don't give it a bash at our club.

However, for some people it may correct their already bad strokes.

[Gina]

When I trained at Bath Uni, we tied a sponge to some rope and then put it on a belt. It worked well at creating drag (it was one of the few good ideas my coach came up with!) but the turns were a bit dodgey cos u had to dodge the sponge when u pushed off.

I'm training at Teddington now, and they have t-shirt sessions. I've been to one. It was an interesting experience, hard, but when u swim normally u feel tiny and weightless. I do agree with Katie cos the wet t-shirt was very heavy and therefore restricting on my shoulders. I will try shorts next time.

[Natasha]

but the turns were a bit dodgey cos u had to dodge the sponge when u pushed off.

LOL!! - Sorry that just kind of seemed really funny to me! :p