Wow! I have been swimming (competitively, well kind-of) for 15 years and I have never been good at breaststroke. I watched the video today, tried out the tips and within 50 yards, there was a significant improvement. Thank you for posting. Keep up the good work!
Every stroke in breaststroke starts and ends in streamline. The more time you stay in the streamline position, the more you decrease the drag and the resistance that you create. The breathing part is the slowest part of the stroke, so it's important to maximise your time and get into the streamline position quickly to glide.
I appreciate that the breaststroke is recognized as one of the most complicated and therefore most analyzed styles, I think I will also propose a kind of similar content. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you so much for this video I need it!!I have only done the 100 breaststroke twice the first time I got disqualified the second my time was 2:32. I am not good at breaststroke and would like to drop as much time as possible especially so I can get my IM time better because the breaststroke holds me back in it.love your videos!!!❤️
As a breaststroker I am having trouble dropping 1.7 secs to qualify in 50 breast as a young girl and its frustrating me so much so i will try this tips out to see if it helps!
I love your videos. Thank you for posting this. How do you increase the amount of time you’re able to exhale under water? I keep having to cut my pullout short. I’ve tried to reduce the force of the exhalation but it doesn’t seem to be working.
Thanks for the kind words! Here's a few ideas you can try. 1) You can practice doing pullouts separately - have an entire section of practice dedicated to only pullouts + 1-2 strokes off the wall 2) Try doing several 25s where you add a pullout after every 25 then stop after 1-2 strokes to train after swimming them 3) Practice hypoxic training - try drills where you do 1 pull, 2 kicks or 1 pull, 3 kicks to hold your breath longer during the swim. Hope this helps!
Hi Fares, I enjoyed watching your video and I do have one question: How do you avoid pulling a groin muscle when training for the breaststroke? I have pulled a groin muscle on a few occasions and it is painful and takes a long time to recover. Once again, I enjoyed watching this video and keep on making more videos like this one!
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You never mentioned late breathing or using a whip kick. Late breathing was demonstrated close by the Guy but the Girl was breathing too early and as a result she came up higher in the water. The higher you come up the less efficient you will be. Whip kick is done with your knees together with the feet only whiping outward to complete the kick the result is slightly less kick distance that results is far less drag but faster turn over because you do not get the long glide the best example of this is Chet Jastremski or Tom Trethewey from the mid 1960's the draw back is Knee problems from the whip kick. Riding a bicycle which will strengthen the knees
about the pullout. i can usually get to or a little past 15m off the blocks, but it takes a while to get there. would it instead be smarter to get up and swimming from the pullout earlier, like around halfway down the (short-course) pool?
Hi Henry! You can do the dolphin kick at any point during the pullout as long as you only do one. We recommend that you do it either as you bring your arms down or before. Breaststroke kick on your side is hard - it'll turn into more of an eggbeater kick. Hope this helps! :)
A lot of people have difficulty with this stroke! Work on one detail at a time rather than trying to swim perfectly all at once - you'll notice subtle improvements over time :)
I was talking to a friend of mine who is good at breaststroke about a new form I was trying with it. It was essentially staying as close to the water as you can while not pulling yourself up as much to not have your body create as much as a wall than it normally would. He called it waterbugging. What's you opinion about swimming it like that?
If you watch someone like Adam peaty swim breaststroke, he lifts his chest and upper torso completely out of the water with his pull. As he is the world champ I would assume that that is the best technique; there isn’t much drag as you should curve your torso so the part in the water is mostly flat still and you use the momentum of gravity to help your kick and streamline
@@o.mcnl_ that makes a lot of sense. But my reasoning behind thinking my waterbugging thing would work well is because it wouldn't use your body as a wall. But your definitely right that peaty's form is likely the best one.
@@SamFranklin42701 Conversely, watch Lydia Jacoby, the 100m gold medalist from Tokyo. She has a completely different stroke but it works for her. Very flat. My son swims it like her and he's super fast. Breaststroke has the most variability, it really depends on what works for you.
Last year I was able to go 1:21 for my 100 breaststroke time but now I can't get anywhere close to that. I'm not sure what's changed since last summer and I would love to be able to get under 1:20. Any suggestions as to why that is?
Lol that happened to me before. I went a 1:19 a year ago and a couple of months went by and I could never break 20 seconds. 6 months later, I got a 1:11. I think it all comes down to the speed of your tempo, or in other words, the amount of strokes you take per 10 seconds. I was stuck getting 1:22 every single time because I wasn't taking enough strokes, I was always going the exact same pace even though my stroke got better. One way to move faster is by mastering your timing of each movement of breastroke to have it memorized, then every practice try sprinting with good technique. Your turns could also very much be hurting your times.
@@NRClips3414 Thank you so much, this is so helpful! Regionals is this Friday and I’m so set on getting a 1:19. Is there anything short term that might be good for getting faster too? Like dry land exercises or drills?
@@emigeorge9315 I don't really know of any "great" dry land exercises nor drills, but I recommend you watch this video for technique help - m.ua-cam.com/video/rVaXro6fcEQ/v-deo.html . Also, one swimmer I know has decreased his time by 10 seconds recently by practicing breastroke kicking more and doing open turns alot, so that might help close to a meet. Other then that good luck with your regionals👍.
@@FaresKsebati yes thank you! And could you do a video on the ”hörde technique” in freestyle? Dressel swims like that in the 100m+ freestyle for example
Hi Dianne! Thanks for letting us know - it's now in the app under the breaststroke category! Try refreshing the app (close it and reopen) if you don't see it right away :)
Hence; self uses both - inttrr! And terminal Velocity - corp of self. In the open. Hence; shwmmrrsz - hav itt - under waattrr. Not! If kick att, wider point - more float - per kick - propulsion 101. Air intake. Core of self - alone notices - foreward times.
@@aggelikimetzidaki221 I’m 13 years old and actually I’m in a club and I work hard and listen to my coach Here are my times if u want to know 100m breaststroke : 1’43 to 1’30 200m breaststroke : 3’44 to 3’12 And it’s simple that I thought just focus when you swim and believe in yourself and I know my times are so bad but I’m proud of them and I hope I’ll still improve them ( + my country is so bad in swimming and sorry for my bad English it’s my 3rd language )
Adam Peaty watching this getting ready to go a 46
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He already went a 46 man
Wow! I have been swimming (competitively, well kind-of) for 15 years and I have never been good at breaststroke. I watched the video today, tried out the tips and within 50 yards, there was a significant improvement. Thank you for posting. Keep up the good work!
Great job! Keep up the dedication and happy swimming :)
Thanks for using normal people to illustrate not the superfit ones for the rest of us. Good teaching thanks.👍
We believe everybody has a swimmer's body! Happy swimming :)
Every stroke in breaststroke starts and ends in streamline.
The more time you stay in the streamline position, the more you decrease the drag and the resistance that you create.
The breathing part is the slowest part of the stroke, so it's important to maximise your time and get into the streamline position quickly to glide.
I appreciate that the breaststroke is recognized as one of the most complicated and therefore most analyzed styles, I think I will also propose a kind of similar content. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you so much for this!! Breaststroke is my weakest stroke and I find it harder to drop time in this event. You guys are awesome!!!!!
Glad to help! You've got this - happy swimming :)
Tell me I’m not the only guy to smile while hearing the first sentence 😂
You’re not. 😂
Yep
You are doing absolutely great job with all these precious training courses! Thank you so much Fares! You rock!
Thanks for the video , today is my breaststroke 50 m finals and I want to make sure i go 48 seconds this video helped me alot :)
Best of luck! Have fun :)
Have a meet tmr, so i´m watching this hoping it will help me drop 10 seconds overnight LOL
Good luck and have fun!
Thank you so much for this video I need it!!I have only done the 100 breaststroke twice the first time I got disqualified the second my time was 2:32. I am not good at breaststroke and would like to drop as much time as possible especially so I can get my IM time better because the breaststroke holds me back in it.love your videos!!!❤️
What’s your time now? It’s been a long time since I last did 100 breast but I think I got 2:12.
@@spodreman7732 that’s great I did it again a few months ago and dropped about 20 seconds!! It was somewhere around 2:12 or so
@@spodreman7732 1:45
This is great! I’m trying to get my 100 SCY Breast JO cut! Can’t wait to try it out!
Me watching 4 days before a meet🤫
I have just 12years old and i swim 1.13 min in 100m breaststroke
is it good ?
Thank you so much. My son has gotten a lot better at breaststroke after he watched this video.
Pull kick gliding is a must sequence else it gonna be disqualified!? OOP I always practice pull glide & kick omg which one is correct
Getting re-motivated.
You've got this! 💪
In the last two weeks I dropped my 200 breast LCM by 12 seconds 😁 mostly focusing on head position, popping up my hips, and consistent timing.
That's awesome, Luke! Keep up the hard work and happy swimming :)
I dropped three more seconds in the afternoon!
As a breaststroker I am having trouble dropping 1.7 secs to qualify in 50 breast as a young girl and its frustrating me so much so i will try this tips out to see if it helps!
I love your videos. Thank you for posting this. How do you increase the amount of time you’re able to exhale under water? I keep having to cut my pullout short. I’ve tried to reduce the force of the exhalation but it doesn’t seem to be working.
Thanks for the kind words! Here's a few ideas you can try.
1) You can practice doing pullouts separately - have an entire section of practice dedicated to only pullouts + 1-2 strokes off the wall
2) Try doing several 25s where you add a pullout after every 25 then stop after 1-2 strokes to train after swimming them
3) Practice hypoxic training - try drills where you do 1 pull, 2 kicks or 1 pull, 3 kicks to hold your breath longer during the swim.
Hope this helps!
@@FaresKsebati thank you very much, I’ll give it a try 🥰
Hi Fares, I enjoyed watching your video and I do have one question: How do you avoid pulling a groin muscle when training for the breaststroke? I have pulled a groin muscle on a few occasions and it is painful and takes a long time to recover. Once again, I enjoyed watching this video and keep on making more videos like this one!
Not kicking as wide helped me.
@@j.j.741agreed! Watch top breast-strokers they have a rather narrow kick these days.
Adam peaty watching this video 😀😀😀
😂😂😂
I hit the jackpot! 😄😁😊😇
Breast is my Kryptonite. I want to improve, so thanks for the tips.
Thanks so much for creating this video! It was very helpful not only to me, but to my teammates whom I shared this video with.
Glad it helped! Thanks for the kind words and for sharing - happy swimming :)
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Sir make backstroke start video without wedge ...it may help us !!
Great suggestion!
You never mentioned late breathing or using a whip kick. Late breathing was demonstrated close by the Guy but the Girl was breathing too early and as a result she came up higher in the water. The higher you come up the less efficient you will be. Whip kick is done with your knees together with the feet only whiping outward to complete the kick the result is slightly less kick distance that results is far less drag but faster turn over because you do not get the long glide the best example of this is Chet Jastremski or Tom Trethewey from the mid 1960's the draw back is Knee problems from the whip kick. Riding a bicycle which will strengthen the knees
Thanks for the tips and the 100 m breaststroke is my favorite event.
Breaststrokers, unite! Happy swimming :)
about the pullout. i can usually get to or a little past 15m off the blocks, but it takes a while to get there. would it instead be smarter to get up and swimming from the pullout earlier, like around halfway down the (short-course) pool?
As soon as you feel yourself losing momentum, you should get up and get swimming! :)
You are the best.Thank u
I swim 100m in 1:19 hope i do 1:16 or less after this video ❤️
For the pullout when should we do the dolphin kick and Is it possible to do breaststroke kick on the side?
Hi Henry! You can do the dolphin kick at any point during the pullout as long as you only do one. We recommend that you do it either as you bring your arms down or before. Breaststroke kick on your side is hard - it'll turn into more of an eggbeater kick. Hope this helps! :)
I don’t have much hope that my breast stroke will ever get better. I’m embarrassed to say my stroke count :(
Same
A lot of people have difficulty with this stroke! Work on one detail at a time rather than trying to swim perfectly all at once - you'll notice subtle improvements over time :)
im trying to make state im a 1;24 i need 1;17 i needed this ty
Good luck! You've got this!
Question to all of you people. How you got the 100 Breast? Mine is 1.07,03 on a regular and 1.06,77 on a Relay.
Adam peaty watching this:
My kicks in breastroke is horrible thanks for the video coachhh
Glad to help! Happy swimming :)
Watching this an hour before my race.
Hope you swam fast and had fun! :)
Good stuff.
How to exhale in water ? By nose or by mouth ??
I was talking to a friend of mine who is good at breaststroke about a new form I was trying with it. It was essentially staying as close to the water as you can while not pulling yourself up as much to not have your body create as much as a wall than it normally would. He called it waterbugging. What's you opinion about swimming it like that?
If you watch someone like Adam peaty swim breaststroke, he lifts his chest and upper torso completely out of the water with his pull. As he is the world champ I would assume that that is the best technique; there isn’t much drag as you should curve your torso so the part in the water is mostly flat still and you use the momentum of gravity to help your kick and streamline
@@o.mcnl_ that makes a lot of sense. But my reasoning behind thinking my waterbugging thing would work well is because it wouldn't use your body as a wall. But your definitely right that peaty's form is likely the best one.
@@SamFranklin42701 Conversely, watch Lydia Jacoby, the 100m gold medalist from Tokyo. She has a completely different stroke but it works for her. Very flat. My son swims it like her and he's super fast. Breaststroke has the most variability, it really depends on what works for you.
My breast stroke ..
Proof that it is possible to do a lot of something and still be terrible at it.
Is no one talking about that fart at 3:00? 😂
Great video as usual. Thank you.
Can I buy the blue “Swim” swim cap somewhere?
Thanks for the kind words, Deborah! We are working toward making these caps publicly available within the next month :)
Congratulations 👏 what do you mean by saying to pulls one kick
I had a race . I was the 3rd in the Finale after i wtached this I was the 1st in the grand finale THANK YOU SO MUCH FARED KSEBATI!!!!!!!!!!!
its not fared its fares
merci
Me who already goes a 1:05: ah yes I would love to drop 10 seconds!!! Sadly still two seconds off B cut for ncaas
If I dropped 10 seconds I would have the wr
Last year I was able to go 1:21 for my 100 breaststroke time but now I can't get anywhere close to that. I'm not sure what's changed since last summer and I would love to be able to get under 1:20. Any suggestions as to why that is?
Lol that happened to me before. I went a 1:19 a year ago and a couple of months went by and I could never break 20 seconds. 6 months later, I got a 1:11. I think it all comes down to the speed of your tempo, or in other words, the amount of strokes you take per 10 seconds. I was stuck getting 1:22 every single time because I wasn't taking enough strokes, I was always going the exact same pace even though my stroke got better. One way to move faster is by mastering your timing of each movement of breastroke to have it memorized, then every practice try sprinting with good technique. Your turns could also very much be hurting your times.
@@NRClips3414 Thank you so much, this is so helpful! Regionals is this Friday and I’m so set on getting a 1:19. Is there anything short term that might be good for getting faster too? Like dry land exercises or drills?
@@emigeorge9315 I don't really know of any "great" dry land exercises nor drills, but I recommend you watch this video for technique help - m.ua-cam.com/video/rVaXro6fcEQ/v-deo.html . Also, one swimmer I know has decreased his time by 10 seconds recently by practicing breastroke kicking more and doing open turns alot, so that might help close to a meet. Other then that good luck with your regionals👍.
Thanks Fares…
After watching nearly all of your videos, how much more dense is water compared to air again? 😂
My 50 Breast is 42:44
100 Breast is 1:33
200 Breast 3:12
Ten years old swimmer
Ay that’s pretty good G lm 13 and my 50 is 33 and 100 is 1:17
Dropping 10 sec is like a 40m gap
Please bring a same video for 100 fly
Great suggestion!
@@FaresKsebati yes thank you! And could you do a video on the ”hörde technique” in freestyle? Dressel swims like that in the 100m+ freestyle for example
11:18
10 seconds?! Well if that’s the case I’ll be going a sub 50😨
I can’t find the workout in the app😩😒please help
Hi Dianne! Thanks for letting us know - it's now in the app under the breaststroke category! Try refreshing the app (close it and reopen) if you don't see it right away :)
Would this work if I’m going a 1:05 .48 currently??
You'll definitely shave off some time focusing on these tips! Keep up the hard work!
Hence; self uses both - inttrr! And terminal Velocity - corp of self. In the open. Hence; shwmmrrsz - hav itt - under waattrr. Not! If kick att, wider point - more float - per kick - propulsion 101. Air intake. Core of self - alone notices - foreward times.
I have 1:06.71 rn I need a 59.00 by February
You've got this, Gavin! Talk with your coaches to make a plan and keep working on technique and speed :)
I broke 13sec in 100m breaststroke
And 32sec in 200 m breaststroke
How old are you and HOW did you manage to do that ?
@@aggelikimetzidaki221 I’m 13 years old and actually I’m in a club and I work hard and listen to my coach
Here are my times if u want to know
100m breaststroke : 1’43 to 1’30
200m breaststroke : 3’44 to 3’12
And it’s simple that I thought just focus when you swim and believe in yourself and I know my times are so bad but I’m proud of them and I hope I’ll still improve them
( + my country is so bad in swimming and sorry for my bad English it’s my 3rd language )
@@aggelikimetzidaki221 ua-cam.com/video/rVaXro6fcEQ/v-deo.html this video helped me a lot especially for the 100m breaststroke
@@tyyuujgyhji8106 well thank u
I like your lecture but not to speak too fast, sorry i am not good in english😇😇😇
u won't swim faster by cheat ..... why not choose 10 meter pool, ur time will be a lot faster n no stroke needed
👏 🅿🆁🅾🅼🅾🆂🅼
Lie flat and just raise the head,this moder stroke is a jok3, hands under the body, not out dide