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| Originally Posted by captn_peaky Hi,
Apologies if this has been raised before.
I find that after a couple of hours in the pool with students, finning around, kneeling, surface movement etc etc, I become prone to cramp in my calves. This is something I'd like to address - especially as the said cramp seems to linger in the background until I do something energetic, like a tank-value-tow race (or, potentially, a rescue operation).
I'm a member of the gym and go (fairly *ahem*  ) regularly, so that's not so much a problem. However, although all the weight machines identify the names of the muscles they target, I've no idea which ones are specific to the specialised activity of finning.
Any medically minded divers able to give me the proper names I should be focusing on, rather than just looking at the pictures on the machines and going for anything below the knee!
Also, are there any particular CV activities which would beneift the art of finning?
Thanks in advance. |
Yep change your finning action.
Sounds like you are using your ankles way too much, not so bad if you have
a flexible fin, but a real pain if yours are planks.
Best advice is to use the thigh muscles in a nice long slow deliberate
stroke. Get this right and it's easy to change from flutter to frog kick and
you even use a different muscle group.
Get somebody to watch you and I bet there is loads of ankle and not so
much thigh.
T.
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