{"id":364649,"date":"2019-04-14T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T19:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=364649"},"modified":"2019-04-14T20:41:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:41:55","slug":"finis-tip-of-the-week-breaststroke-with-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/finis-tip-of-the-week-breaststroke-with-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"FINIS Tip Of The Week: Breaststroke With Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to the \u201cFINIS Tip of the Week.\u201d Swimming World will be bringing you a topic that we\u2019ll explore with drills and concepts for you to 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), each tip is 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 tip explains the advantage of adding drag resistance in breaststroke. Of all four strokes, breaststroke is often the most fickle, requiring swimmers to pay close attention to the timing of the pull and kick in order to minimize resistance as much as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often swimmers will develop \u201cdead spots\u201d in their stroke where they are slowing down. This is usually from bad timing, slowing down their pull, starting their kick too early or too late, or not finishing their kick. These disconnections in the stroke over time can become bad habits that are hard to break. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using drag resistance in breaststroke is one of the best ways to improve a swimmer\u2019s awareness of any dead spots in their stroke. Grabbing a parachute, drag sox, or swimming stationary against a bungee cord or even with a pull buoy in between the legs are all ways to focus on connecting to their stroke to make it more efficient and more powerful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swimming against resistance is, naturally, harder, and will help swimmers feel some of the bad habits that can make breaststroke inefficient, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slipping through the catch<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slowing down through the middle of the pull<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not maximizing the glide at the end of each stroke<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An early or late kick<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weak finish to the 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