{"id":229525,"date":"2016-11-17T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=229525"},"modified":"2016-11-16T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:12:24","slug":"fitter-and-faster-swim-drill-of-the-week-breaststroke-kick-hands-in-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fitter-and-faster-swim-drill-of-the-week-breaststroke-kick-hands-in-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitter And Faster Swim Drill Of The Week: Breaststroke Kick Hands In Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to the \u201cSwim Drill of the Week\u201d sponsored by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fitterandfaster.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fitter and Faster Swim Tour<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> presented by Swimoutlet.com. Swimming World will be bringing you a drill, concept, or tip that you can implement with your team on a regular basis. While certain weeks may be more appropriate for specific levels of swimming (club, high school, college, or masters), Drill Of The Week excerpts are meant to be flexible for your needs and inclusive for all levels of swimming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week\u2019s drill is Breaststroke Kick Hands In Back, which in laymans terms means breaststroke kick with your hands on your butt. While just a slightly different way of doing breaststroke kick, the idea is that this drill will help your swimmers find better body position in their stroke and more consistently engage their core and chest to \u201cfall forward\u201d at the end of each stroke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The drill itself is fairly simple: pushing off the wall, place your hands on your butt and start kicking breaststroke. It is important to have your hands within your body line, not just by your sides. This will help minimize resistance but will also force your body position to drop. While this may initially seem like a bad thing (why would you want to practice <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bad <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">body position on a drill?), you want the hips to sink a little in this drill so you can practice rolling the hips forward at the end of each kick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the real purpose of the drill. At the end of each kick, swimmers should be focused on driving forward with the chest, getting the head back in line with the rest of the body, and rolling the hips forward. Think of the body undulation in butterfly. While we don\u2019t want to see that level of undulation through the entire body, that idea of driving forward through the chest and core is what your swimmers should be trying to imitate with each kick. 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