the mystery of breaststroke

first you'll find lot's of great info at: wayne's http://www.breaststroke.info I've written about breastroke in Swim Faster Faster forums.usms.org/showthread.php the trick to breastroke is mastering the technique and getting strong one key is body position you want your arms out in front and your head neutral when you fire off your kick be in a superman streamline position do kicking drills where you work on improving your feel for the water with your legs and feet also kick with a board, kick 200 - 400 *** per practice occasionally do 50 and 100 kicks for time you've got to master correct timing many swimmers could go faster in breastroke but their timing is off, their body position is wrong, or they're just not pressing as much water as they could once you have better technique and timing work on speed, strength and conditioning last year I worked with tyler blessing in december he split 38 on his IM by nats he split 34 do timed 50's where you swim into the wall backstroke, start the watch when your hand touches flip and swim a fast 50 *** also in the IM it will help if you don't kill yourself in the fly and back hold back a little so you'll have a stronger *** and free rest also makes a huge difference for breastrokers I'm known many breastrokers who make awesome drops during taper good luck hope this helps ande It is not a stretch to say that breaststroke is about 1/3 of my IM. I know my timing if off, but my kick really stinks. I have no excuse; I have a short axis body type and strong legs from running and weights. What can I do to fix my kick? Thanks!!

first you'll find lot's of great info at: wayne's http://www.breaststroke.info I've written about breastroke in Swim Faster Faster forums.usms.org/showthread.php the trick to breastroke is mastering the technique and getting strong one key is body position you want your arms out in front and your head neutral when you fire off your kick be in a superman streamline position do kicking drills where you work on improving your feel for the water with your legs and feet also kick with a board, kick 200 - 400 *** per practice occasionally do 50 and 100 kicks for time you've got to master correct timing many swimmers could go faster in breastroke but their timing is off, their body position is wrong, or they're just not pressing as much water as they could once you have better technique and timing work on speed, strength and conditioning last year I worked with tyler blessing in december he split 38 on his IM by nats he split 34 do timed 50's where you swim into the wall backstroke, start the watch when your hand touches flip and swim a fast 50 *** also in the IM it will help if you don't kill yourself in the fly and back hold back a little so you'll have a stronger *** and free rest also makes a huge difference for breastrokers I'm known many breastrokers who make awesome drops during taper good luck hope this helps ande It is not a stretch to say that breaststroke is about 1/3 of my IM. I know my timing if off, but my kick really stinks. I have no excuse; I have a short axis body type and strong legs from running and weights. What can I do to fix my kick? Thanks!!