Video: How to Swim With Floats

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Swimming with floats, or pool buoys, can help an inexperienced swimmer improve balance for the legs and hips while also strengthening the core and upper body. Start training with advice from a professional swimmer in this free video on swimming with floats.

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I'm Stephen Taylor, endurance coach and fitness trainer through my company STtrainer.com I'm here to talk about how to swim with floats. In other words how to correctly use a pool buoy while swimming. The materials you will need for this activity include any pool buoy. This is one example. A pool buoy is a good tool for someone who use, who is learning to swim, and they are struggling to achieve balance where their hips and legs are on the surface of the water. If you're founding your hips and your legs are dragging down in the water, consider using a pool buoy initially to help you to learn to swim. A pool buoy is placed between the thighs and a person does not kick while using a pool buoy. And the pool buoy causes their hips and legs to have extra flotation and float at the surface. The other thing that a pool buoy is very good for is to isolate the core and upper body portions of a swim stroke. So you can get extra swim training for your arms and rest your legs by using a pool buoy. Place the pool buoy between your thighs close to your hips. Remember, you can swim normally just don't use a kick while you're swimming with a pool buoy. In conclusion, a pool buoy or a float is a useful tool for a swimmer both in learning to swim and also isolating the upper body for extra training for your arms in swimming.

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How to Swim With Floats

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