How To Swim Breaststroke: Timing and Coordination

Incorrect timing will make good leg kick and arm techniques worthless

The coordination of breaststroke propulsive phases should be a continuous alternating action, where one propulsive phase takes over as one ends.

Breast stroke timing and coordination can be summed up with the following sequence: pull, breathe, kick, glide.

breaststroke timing

A streamlined body position at the end of the timing sequence is essential to capitalise on the propulsive phases of the stroke. The timing can be considered in another way: when the arms are pulling in their propulsive phase, the legs are streamlined and when the legs are kicking in propulsion, the arms are streamlined.

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Full body extension is essential before the start of each stroke cycle.

breaststroke timing

Competitive variations in stroke timing can be found by decreasing or even eliminating the glide and using the arm and leg actions in an almost continuous stroke to give more propulsion.

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