- When using these FINIS Iso paddles,
we said that you've got to be really careful of
with concave, get it in without massive charges
on the plane.
That swim actually felt not bad
when using these FINIS Iso paddles
the isolate paddles, because they isolate the parts
of your stroke to strengthen them
that you want to strength depending on the type of stroke.
So with back stroke and with free style
you want to be isolating like the outside of your body
because you're pulling on the outside with breast stroke
and with fly, you wanna be isolating
the interiors, the pecs.
So the premise with these is that
where you put this keel, that one, that one,
that one, that one, is opposite to what you want to
strengthen so you can flip these around
that's on the inside.
Its gonna isolate the outside,
the tris and the traps for freestyle
and backstroke.
If you flip them around,
and its on the outside, its gonna isolate your pecs.
I've probably tried them for
I want to say five or six swims.
Another guy in the lane has tried them
and they do what they're supposed to.
Now in order of most resistance to least,
this would be the most if you're looking for something
that is just raw outright strength
all over and actually you might be risking
a little bit of shoulder injury
because this is so much resistance,
you go in with a paddle like this
or a FINIS agility paddle.
Next would be something like these.
I don't find that it burns out my muscles
but somewhere around 800 meters or so
you start feeling that little bit of fatigue in the areas
that its isolating.
Last on the list is this FINIS free styler paddle.
There's really like no resistance to this.
Its basically all technique.
Downside to this is that
because they're so new, they are fairly expensive.
I hear that they're about $60.
So that's kind of pricey.
You put them on like so
and like I say yellow is on the left.
Black is on the right.
If you're doing free style or back stroke,
black is on the left.
Yellow is on the right if you're doing fly or breast.
And you keep these little dots down here
by the palm of your hand.
As far as getting your hand into the right position
it feels pretty good.
Because there's just that little bit more resistance
you can at least, you can feel the front of the catch
and make sure that you're scooping a fair bit of water
while not totally ignoring the strength
and while not completely risking injury.
I like them.
Thanks FINIS.
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Yeah swim felt good, felt strong, felt good.
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And the high performance coach that hangs off
off to the side, not high performing us,
reminded me of something that I did in a video
a couple of years ago that I link to up here
that it was back when the channel was really small
so most of you haven't seen it.
But its about hand position as it relates to paddles.
When we said that you've got to be really careful of
with concave paddles like this that have a scoop
and this is that you're not developing the habit
of cupping your hand like that
because even though you're cupping your hand
and it feels like you're able to grab water,
what the science has actually proven is that
when you cup your hand, you're actually making the
surface area quite a bit smaller.
So much better is to have a flat hand like that
because there's more surface area or best is to have
a little bit of a relaxed hand to take that muscle tension
out of your hand and these little eighth inch spaces
if its just a small little space in between the fingers
it ends up basically acting like a solid because
the water doesn't pass through it as if you're like that.
So worst, little bit better, but not ideal.
Much better, best.
So when you're using paddles that are concaved
make sure that you don't get in the habit of keeping
that scooped hand.
Hand scooped.
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So trainiacs, we are now, what are we?
What's today's date?
26th, we are 23 days away from half Ironman Austin 70.3.
Tomorrow I think is one of the last finishing
touch workouts.
Then off to Kona.
Get my ass handed to me by the heat.
Just do a little bit of training there
and then we do a taper, fly out on the 25th.
I've been filled in a few emails from trainiacs
who are either gonna be watching or racing
and I put this out there a while ago,
but I haven't talked about it in a while
and there's a whole lot of new trainiacs out there.
So if you're gonna be in Austin
and you haven't yet got in on the trainiac gettogether,
the plan is that the Friday evening before the race
we're all gonna get together.
I'm gonna pick a restaurant.
Unfortunately I can't pick up the tab.
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Maybe some day I could buy dinner for NTK.
We got the kits.
If you haven't seen the kits, there's one right, bam, there.
One of the most popular Instagram posts I've ever
put out, and then on the Saturday,
we're all gonna get together
for half hour 40 minute warmup
and basically yeah, we're gonna dominate
Half Ironman Austin 70.3.
If you have yet to get in and like figure out details
and you haven't heard about this, and this is all new to you
go to triathlonterrain.com/Austin.
Put in your email address and that's how I'm collecting
everyone's info, who's gonna be in Austin.
I'll start arranging some things.
So we can go in there and collectively
drop it like a ton.
It's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Other fun news,
I'm getting all my stuff together
for all the camera gear
that we're gonna have to bring to Kona.
So that Mel and NTK and I
can crank out our ton of stuff
and I have no idea how I'm gonna pack this
and get it in without massive charges on the plane.
Alright trainiacs, new and old,
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