Swimming breaststroke arms technique. Tutorial with 7 Drills

On this video we will go over some drills to improve your arms technique while you swim breaststroke.

The main problem I see that swimmers have in breaststroke is that they open their arms too wide. Some of the best swimmers in the world have incredibly narrow stroke in breaststroke. This makes their movements very efficient. So if you have a wide stroke, the first step is to work on making it more narrower.

One exercise that I have seen worked is putting a pool worm under your armpits. This will prevent you from bringing your arms too far back and will also give you float-ability. If you don’t have access to this toy you can try laying on the edge of the pool and doing this exercise. This will show you how far your arms should go.

Now to have a more efficient stroke you must perfect the glide movement. To practice this you can swim breaststroke with an exaggerated glide. Keeping the glide for about 2 or 3 seconds. It might feel uncomfortable but you should focus on keep moving forward and keeping a good body position. The tighter your body is the easier it will be to glide.

When focusing on specific body parts, we like reducing complexity to make it easier to fix. Try swimming breaststroke but only moving one arm. Keep the other arm in front of you as still as you can.

The next exercise is a bit more difficult but it is similar. This time keep one of your arms down by your body. Focus on doing a fast narrow stroke with the other arm.

Sometimes what messes up our stroke is the timing. To fix this we need more body coordination. Try doing breaststroke with flutter kick. Once you manage to do this, you will be able to focus on your stroke on a constant speed, without slowing down for the kick.

The arms in breaststroke are like the point of an arrow. They cut the water for the rest of your body, and for that you need to practice shooting them forward with speed. Try doing breaststroke arms with dolphin kick. This will help both of your strokes, butterfly and breaststroke. Remember to shoot with your arms forward and by timing it with a butterfly kick you will create the aggressive momentum you need for the stroke.

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