When I swim breaststroke, I use the outsweep and insweep type of pull. I don't focus on pulling back at all. I read it somewhere that you should also focus on pulling back. WHen I tried doing that, my hands got stuck and my timing is off. Anyone has any thoughts?
Also, how wide should you pull? I sweep out to 12-15 inches outside my shoulder width, anchor my hands, then start insweep? I am concerned it might be too wide. When I tried anchoring my hands narrower, I don't feel as powerful of an insweep.
Thanks.
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You want to try to cut the pizza in half. That means that your hands are exactly in the middle of your chest on the way back to straight and that will help drive you forward.
You get momentum from both pulling yourself forward and lunging. When you drive forward that should be at the same time that you are bringing your legs back to straight, so that everything is in a streamline at the same time and that's when you glide. When you pull you always want to end in a position so that you can drive forward. So when you come up to breath, you should be leaning forward, looking down, ready to push forward. Look at some pictures of the elite...Beard, Hansen, etc. and you'll see that they are leaning forward.
You want to try to cut the pizza in half. That means that your hands are exactly in the middle of your chest on the way back to straight and that will help drive you forward.
You get momentum from both pulling yourself forward and lunging. When you drive forward that should be at the same time that you are bringing your legs back to straight, so that everything is in a streamline at the same time and that's when you glide. When you pull you always want to end in a position so that you can drive forward. So when you come up to breath, you should be leaning forward, looking down, ready to push forward. Look at some pictures of the elite...Beard, Hansen, etc. and you'll see that they are leaning forward.
