Xterra LAVA pants

I have a pair and it has helped my swim tremendously. One way it's different from a pull buoy is you can kick.

I suggest taking the money you'd on these and invest in learning how to swim better. Seriously. These may help in the short term, but you're doing yourself a huge disservice by buying yourself a huge crutch.

Sorry these have helped me more in 3 months than the previous 1.5 years without. Best money I have spent on swimming.

Can you elaborate on how the Lava pants have improved your swimming? Thanks!

They have helped me in letting me work on my pull without me worrying about my legs. Also over time my body has gotten use to being in a more horizontal position. Even when I don't use the lava pants my body remains in a more horizontal position. I have improved from a 2:10/100yd to 1:40/100yd within 3 months since using the Lava pants. The prior 1.5 years I was suck at 2:10. Since I started wearing them 3 other teammates are using them. In a nutshell they allow me to work on bettering my form.

I'd save money and just buy a cheap pool buoy to work on your stroke. That will help get your body in a more horizontal position (so will kicking). I swim faster with a wetsuit too, I'm pretty sure most/if not everyone do. Living in FL there are very few swims that are wetsuit legal, I wouldn't want to become dependent on a crutch, which is what these seem.