Reading up on some peoples' dynamic technique, it seems that a lot of folk require a lot of weight (even accounting for any suit buoyancy, it seems disproportionate to me)
A couple of years I estimated that without weight I was perhaps putting up to 30% of my effort into staying down (between 1.5m and 2m in a constant 2m pool). I made a neck weight and this seemed to sort things out, only about 1.2kg (no suit - just trunks and goggles).
I seemed to strangely lose some buoyancy over a weekend in Barcelona last year and it remains the same now - with no neck weight, and again just in trunks, I seem to be ALMOST negative in only 2m of water! I certainly sometimes feel my chest or stomach or knees very lightly "grind" across the bottom of the pool, but I'm sure I'm swimming "straight" and not downward.
Is this normal? I am not especially scrawny like a skin bag of bones, and I am not made of heavy dense muscle tissue (I wish!).
Sometimes I wonder if I lost a lung, but I think that's just because I'm crap
A couple of years I estimated that without weight I was perhaps putting up to 30% of my effort into staying down (between 1.5m and 2m in a constant 2m pool). I made a neck weight and this seemed to sort things out, only about 1.2kg (no suit - just trunks and goggles).
I seemed to strangely lose some buoyancy over a weekend in Barcelona last year and it remains the same now - with no neck weight, and again just in trunks, I seem to be ALMOST negative in only 2m of water! I certainly sometimes feel my chest or stomach or knees very lightly "grind" across the bottom of the pool, but I'm sure I'm swimming "straight" and not downward.
Is this normal? I am not especially scrawny like a skin bag of bones, and I am not made of heavy dense muscle tissue (I wish!).
Sometimes I wonder if I lost a lung, but I think that's just because I'm crap