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I have been lap swimming for almost two years and while I have seen improvements in my upperbody, I cannot distinguish any significant improvement to my lower body. I must not be working it correctly. What should I do - ANY suggestions will be appreciated.
-- Diane Ault (dault@tctc.com), September 17, 1998
You can try kicking with a kickboard.
-- Nicole Pederson (NKPederson@mn.rr.com), April 15, 2001.
you should do wall sits for about a min.. and work your way up for longer mins. Or just run a little bit a day
-- underwater queen (waterbugg_105@hotmail.com), November 05, 2002.
You can also do kicks or ful crawl swimming with fins on to increase the force applied by your legs. It really worked on me!
-- Alfonso (asuarezc@meditex.es), June 15, 2003.