How can swimming equipment improve your swim?

Swim fins can enhance your leg's muscular endurance. As a result of increased resistance, you can correct the wrong swimming posture of the leg and effectively train the lower part of the body.

Functions:

- Increased resistance:
Fins can increase the area of ​​contact with water during kicking and conducting resistance training. With high-intensity water kicking, heart rhythm will be improved significantly. On top of this, it can be extra training for the thigh and hip muscle strength too.

- Muscle training:
Medium-to-strong strength training in thighs and abdomen.

Pro-tips when shopping for swimming fins:

- Rigidity:
The hardness of silicone-made fins is very important. If the flippers are too hard, it may cause an ankle sprain.

- Length of fins:
Short fins ensure an ideal kicking frequency, which greatly improves cardiovascular function compared to long blades. 

However, long fins help you to go further with each kick in the water as compared to short fins. So all in all, it depends on what you're looking for!

Swimming kickboards provide buoyancy which can help swimmers who want to increase their practice diversity. 

Ensure that you choose the right kickboard, which should be as big as your shoulder width, so as to ensure you get the right buoyancy in the water.

The kickboard is a piece of handy and practical swimming equipment that can help you to improve the whole-body muscle and core-muscle stability – discover how it works below!

Functions:
- Lower-limb muscle training: 
It is suitable for occasional or regular swimmers to train up their lower body movements when kicking their legs and help with enhancing core-muscle control.

- Upper-limb muscle training: 
Some kickboards can be used as a pull buoy to be put between the thighs to train the upper limbs.

- Core-muscle control: 
Kickboardd with less buoyancy requires users to use their core-muscle strength to put their body in the right position, which in turn enhances core-muscle control.

A swimming pull buoy is a must-have for upper-body muscle training. It is suitable for both occasional and regular swimmers who want to train their upper body (biceps, triceps, shoulders and abdominal muscles).

Functions:

- Upper-body muscle building:
It provides greater buoyancy for the legs, forcing swimmers to use their upper limbs to keep themselves moving in water during practices. It can allow users to concentrate on mastering arm-stroke techniques.

- Core-muscle building: 
If you want to work specifically on your core muscles, you can position the pull buoy in-between your calves. In this way, you can control your core muscle in greater detail during turning or somersaults underwater.