by Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA

Swimmer doing fly:
“This makes pulling the bucket way harder, but in a good way so I like it.. I feel like I can actually swim my stroke and get a better pull on the water.”
Swimmer doing breaststroke:
“I definitely like this better than the waist belt. I can really press my chest forward and I like that my hips can pop up and the rope doesn’t get caught in my kick.”
As a coach, I like what I see in the water when my swimmers use the Power Harness. Our training is more technically sound and therefore more effective. I coach swimmers 15-18 years old, and it works well for that range but was a little loose on some of my more slightly built
athletes. It is pretty durably constructed and comes with a carabiner so that you can attach it to parachutes, power towers, StretchCordz, buckets, or whatever form of in-water resisted training you do. You can also choose to buy it with a parachute and/or a weight. I don’t have a large budget for training equipment, but after trying the Power Harness I have already bought 9 of these so we can have a bunch of swimmers using it at the same time.

The links listed in the article above are affiliate links, meaning that if you use them to buy products, I will receive a small commission that adds nothing to what you pay. That said, I really like the Power Harness product and wouldn’t recommend it to you here if I didn’t like it and wasn’t having my own team use it. – Ryan
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