breast stroke

Breaststroke is the slowest of the four strokes of the official competition. The fastest breaststroke swimmers can swim around 1.57 meters per second. Although the slowest of the four strokes competitive, it is widely accepted that it is by far the hardest to do well. It is also often the hardest to learn for bathers who rises after the butterfly because of the importance of timing and coordination required to move the legs is good breaststroke swim while leaning on the chest, arms that breaking the surface of the water slightly and legs always underwater, while his head under water for the second half of the race. The move is sometimes called a kick & quot frog & quot, because of the similarity of a sudden a frog, but when done correctly, it is a whip kick & quot, due to movement of the whip, the displacement of the heart through the legs.


The body is often at a steep angle to the motion. This slows down the swimmer more than any other style. Professional breaststroke using the abdominal muscles and hips to add extra power to move, even though most are not perfectly this technique until the college level. This much faster form of breaststroke is called &quot, wave action & quot; breaststroke and fully integrates the whip-kick. A particular feature of the breaststroke competition is the withdrawal underwater. From the streamline position, using his arm to pull down from the hips. As your arms drop, a dolphin kick permitted to drop is optional. It is followed by the recovery of arms in streamline position again, and then a kick. The withdrawal to start and after turns contributes significantly to the pool once. Therefore, a way to improve swimming is time to focus on starting and running.