Training aids can enhance, support and provide an excellent return on your training sessions – as long as you use the right equipment in the right context at the right time. Know what your kit does and what it should be used for! Our main bugbear while testing the kit on the following pages was the lack of product information on why swimmers should be using a particular piece of kit, and how to incorporate it into their training sessions. Kudos therefore to Finis for their technique-focussed kit with detailed information on its purpose.
You can train satisfactorily without any equipment, so don’t blow the budget thinking it’s a must. But training aids can improve fitness, technique and inject a bit of fun and variety into your sessions.