Swimming Headphones - Any Suggestions?
Anyone have any good suggestions for underwater headphones for swimming? Been getting back into it and swimming without music has been brutal. Got some cheap headphones but they did not work with IOS. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I've swam all my life, at a very high level,. These headphone things never work really well.
Best pools i've been to have speakers in the water, but your local rec pool is not equipped for that.
You're wrong. I've been swimming for over 20 years and have encountered a couple of headphones in the water. I had some Sony ones that were in ear and were decent. But, then I found the Shokz Bone Conduction Swimming headphones and they are out of this world clear in the water. I don't like to swim without them. Plus, they are designed to be very stable on the head and they work great.
that you so much Isaiah. I've been swimming for over a decade and never thought about getting headphones. your comment might have just changed my life :)
Are you not on any Swimming forums? On the triathlete forum Slowtwitch.com the consensus for swimming headphones by far is Shokz Bone Conduction swimming headphones - no other model comes close.
I don't need swimming forums. I have enough encyclopedic knowledge of swimming and making my own practices, few other people would provide insight. If I'm cocky it is because I've been coached by some of the worldwide best coaches, and swam against some of the best too.
Also, I only really looked at swim headphones when i was in high school, and only then for a little. Maybe it works better at open water swimming, but anything under a 2-hour practice of a 1 mile swim, you don't really need it, for interval swimming.
sorry to hijack the thread, if you have any resources you can point me to, that'd be super. not trying to train for a triathlon or anything, just wanting to have an efficient stroke and good endurance for surfing. all I've done so far is found rob case (surfing paddling specialist) and total immersion swimming, but I remember you've been a competitive swimmer, so would love some insights from an expert
also out of curiosity, what's a typical week of swimming look like for you?
hey, I wrote a long and well thought out response...and i was unable to upload to WSO.
SO, funny you bring up total immersion swimming. As of 3 months ago I decided to hop back in the pool after a 6 year hiatus. At the end of pool time some woman introduces herself and says I am a total immersion swimmer, she begins to explain it a little. I had similar effects on other people who saw me..6'4 275/280lbs(i look 265), who just assumed I was not going to be fast. Okay, the first week sucked. But after 3-4 weeks of 1-3 times a week, 35-40 min practices(about 1 mile+-), I am comfortably the fastest swimmer at the local pool(there are some masters swimmers). My take is that total immersion is just the end result of what 30+ years of swimming, off and on, has taught me. Swimming is absolutely a skill that can be learned. My practices used to be 8,000-10,000 yards during which you learn to be efficient over years.
Tips
1-Hand Placement- You want to feel the water, you want long slow strokes(for under 85% effort). The hand enters past the head and pushes down and forward until you fin your momentum stopping, then you stroke. Fingers should be slightly together, like you are pressing them down on a desk, none of this cupping them together. When your hand enters the water they can be loosely together, then more rigid when you start your stroke.
2- Stroke - At the beginning of the pull on your stroke, when your arm is above your head, your forearms comes vertically down. Your hand and forearm move as one, like a giant paddle, with the elbow as the joint, like an overhead row. Your goal is to bring your elbow in to your hip.
3- Other tips - Your goal is to move with your arms, and kick with your hips. Too much kicking is inefficient.
- when you take a breath, and your hand leaves the water and starts to move to go over your head, focus on keeping a high elbow relative to hand placement. In addition when your hand enters the water your pinky should be the last part of your hand to enter. Think elbow up, pinky up. These are good que's.
One last piece of advice, don't paddle like a windmill(this only applies to 50s and 100s max effort, and if you really interested look up Richard Quick the ex-Stanford and Olympic coach, maybe the best sprint freestyle coach ever(RIP)). So one arm should always be out front pushing out and slightly down and holding that until the other arm comes back. If you do it fast and slow enough your arms are out front at the same time briefly. There is a drill called "cattchup" when you swim so that each arm takes a turn stroking then high fives the back of the other hand, "tagging it back like it's this one's turn to swim'.
So i do 2-3 times a week, 35-40 minutes, I'll try soon to work that into 3 times a week for 45 min to 1 hour. I mostly work on getting my speed back so main sets can be 50 intervals on the 45 or 60 seconds where I aim at 30-35 second 50 yards(i should be at 25-30 seconds if i lose 20 more lbs). The goal for me is to lose weight slowly so I am easing back in. I weight train 3 days a week to keep muscle mass.
I have Shokz MP3 Bone Conduction Swimming headphones. They are the best swimming headphones I've ever had. I don't wear a cap when I use them and they don't come off, but some people like to wear a swimming cap over it to make them more stable. I wear these when cycling too.
https://www.amazon.com/Shokz-OpenSwim-Conduction-Waterproof-Headphones/…
Are these compatible with the Iphone? Was it easy to download music from Apple Music or Spotify to this MP3 player?
Thank you!
You just drag and drop MP3 files into the folder when the headphones are connected. I don't think it is compatible with Apple Music or Spotify.
I had no idea you can wear headphones underwater
same, especially with all the head movements and water hitting your ears. I'll try Shokz per Isaiah's recommendation. would be awesome if I could listen to music while swimming.
In my opinion the point of swimming is that it's the only exercise where you can't distract yourself - no music, no TV, no looking at other people; just you looking at the bottom of the pool or the sand. Therein lies the real benefit
Swimming with music is one of the most revolutionary things I have ever encountered. I have issues and implement music therapy at various moments in my life. Music makes me happy. I can skimboard with these headphones too and not worry about them getting ruined.
I'm sure it's awesome. I don't swim much anymore but used to be an ocean rescue lifegaurd in northern new england and when we did our long swims in the cold, dark water I found it therapeutic in a way. But to each his own. Need to get back to swimming so I can be better at surfing haha
you have a point, but it'd love to listen to music sometimes as well, doesn't have to be all the time.
Get some.
Ok, this is kind of a weird thing, but a few years back I bought my dad some waterproof headphones for his swims. But the kicker is they don’t even go in your ear, they sit on the side of your head and somehow vibrate the eardrum while underwater and he swears they’re great… downside? It functions off of MP3 files, so yeah. If you’re interested I can try to find them… I think they were from brookstone.
Just read the thread, they talk about it up there.
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