Breaststroke - (Tag)

By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern Swimming is a detail-obsessed sport: It’s all about precise qualifying times, strict training schedules, stroke descriptors, a lot of counting and hundredths of a second to crack the podium.  How many of you feel confident you know the history of swimming...

The Fifth Stroke: Dolphin Kick Drills That Can Improve Performance By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern In recent years, we have consistently watched the sport of swimming develop and grow as we discover ways to become faster. One of the biggest discoveries is the importance of dolphin k...

Training Sets and Tips: Building Breaststroke Endurance As Swimming World continues to bring a variety of training sets to its readership, a focus is placed on this archived piece on the breaststroke. This breaststroke endurance set is designed to work on driving forward in the stroke and finishing ...

Comparing and Contrasting: The Four Main Swimming Strokes By: Daniel Zeng, Swimming World Intern Swimming obviously has its four main strokes: Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. Some are swum moving both arms together. Some are swum moving each arm separately. But there are many mor...

By Brittany Oxley, Swimming World College Intern Breaststrokers are unique in the swimming community. They have strange hip and leg flexibility that allows them to powerfully kick. Many non-breaststrokers often find breaststroke kick painful and hard to do. Non-breaststrokers often cringe when they ...

FINA, the international governing body for aquatic sports, has sent a memorandum to all member federations clarifying two rules regarding pool swimming. The one that will have the most impact moving forward will be what swimmers are allowed to do when pushing off the wall for the freestyle portion o...

By Meaghan Raab, Swimming World College Intern.  There was time when I used to teach swimming through a program with my club team. Breaststroke was always the hardest stroke to teach the kids because of the differences in the stroke from the other three strokes. Freestyle and backstroke are essentia...

The Characteristics Found in 6 Different Types of Swimmers Not all swimmers are created equal. Some are sprinters. Some are distance swimmers. Some are everything in-betweeners. Some swimmers like butterfly more than backstroke. No matter their stroke, swimmers come in all shapes, mentalities and sp...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week! This week’s set is a short secondary set to work on speed through your breakouts. Take a look at the set and the description below. 4 x (5 x 50 on :50) #1: 1 fast cycle off each wall #2: 2 fast cycles off each wall #3: 3 fast cycles off each wall #4: ...

5 Ways to Transform Your Breaststroke (Featuring Drills) By Annie Grevers, Swimming World Staff Writer and Lifelong Breaststroker Republished from the Swimming World archive There are many variations of breaststroke: the turtle, the dart, the deep sea diver, the frat boy (arms only), the inch worm, ...

By Taylor Byers, Swimming World College Intern. Transition turns in the individual medley are crucial to a successful swim. Within the past couple of years, the backstroke to breaststroke transition turn has stirred up a lot conversation. Coaches and swimmers are constantly testing different ways to...

By Grant Anger, Swimming World College Intern. Over the past few years, the swimming world has seen breaststroke technique continually evolve. Swimmers and coaches alike have developed new styles of kicking and pulling, and while substantial differences exist between swimmers, two trends have emerge...

By Dr. G. John Mullen Breaststroke swimmers are unique. What other athletes want to sit in the W-position all day for greater range of motion? Don't worry, I won't rant about the W-position again, but instead offer some novel breaststroke core training exercises from my new product, Swimming Core Tr...

How To Swim the 100 Breaststroke: Breaking Down Swimming's Most Perplexing Race What makes a great 100 breaststroker? Many would point to a dominant kick, gliding them through the water. Others would point to a strong stroke, using their upper body to push forward with efficiency. Some might even po...

Renowned Coach Jozsef Nagy: What's Next in Breaststroke - Reloaded? An argument can be made that Jozsef Nagy possesses more knowledge about the breaststroke than any other individual. After an international career as a breaststroker, the Hungarian-born Nagy shifted into a coaching career that brough...

Rebecca Soni is an American breaststroke specialist who is a six-time Olympic medalist. She is a former world record holder in the 100m breaststroke (short and long course) and the 200m breaststroke (short and long course). Soni was the first woman to swim the 200m breaststroke in under 2 minutes an...

McKenzie Siroky, Lucy Bell Enter College Season as Breaststroke Favorites Over the past four years, a group of internationally-accomplished breaststrokers have dominated the 100 and 200-yard events at the NCAA Women’s Championships. University of Virginia stars Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh won multi...

Pre-coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing. Each week leading up to the start of the swimming competition at the FINA world championships, Swimming World will offer medal predictions for the 42 events set to be contested in Kazan, Russia. Commentary by Jeff Commings, Swimmi...

Eva Szekely, the 1952 Olympic 200m breaststroke champion and Holocaust survivor, has passed away at the age of 92. She was the first winner of an Olympic breaststroke crown who swam with a butterfly action: overarm recovery was ended when butterfly became an official stroke of its own on the way to ...

High-Intensity Workout: Breaststroke With Medicine Balls Here is a breaststroke specific set focused on developing power and consistent timing. Take a look at the set below and the description that follows: 3-4 Rounds: 8 x med ball throws against the wall; sitting w/ a lunge at the end of each throw...