How should I go about improving my breaststroke time?

Breaststroke is a very technical stroke, and it would be hard to tell you what to do without seeing your breaststroke. But some points to remember:





-make sure you're not dropping your elbows when you pull in. Keep them high (ish), anchor your arms, and pull from there, making sure you get a lot of power.





-Make sure your kick is fast and make sure you have a good snap. A lot of people don't finish their kick, and instead just let their legs float back together after only kicking back. You should be pushing the kick until your legs are together again.





-Body movements are also important. In breaststroke, there is the same undulating motion as in butterfly. When you finish your pull, reach out in front of you as far as you can (make sure you're not diving down! It can feel like you aren't even when you are) until you feel your butt and legs rise - then start your next stroke.





-As you get tired, don't let your stroke fall apart. In breaststroke, it's hard to keep your stroke going, but keep making sure you feel that undulating motion.





-There should be three parts to your kick - pulling your heels back to your butt, separating the knees and positioning the feet, and then the kick back. Make sure you can feel each of these steps. A lot of swimmers try and combine the first and second step, and this leads to a lot of bad leg/feet positions before you kick, and bad positioning can lead to a lot of knee problems (I know, I've been there). So make sure you go through each of the steps. As you practice and get used to these motions, you can go through them quickly so that it may seem like you're combining the two steps, even when you're not.





-DON'T bob your head. Keep your head in line with your body. Instead of moving your head to breath, make sure when you pull you are bring your upper body out of the water so that you don't have to manually lift your head up - it should come up naturally if it's in line with your body. Then, shoot forward and reach.





- Make sure your turns are quick and your pullouts are powerful. You should be in and out of your walls very quickly, just drop your arm, bring your feet into the wall, and push off. It should be a very quick motion, but your coach can help you with this - it's hard to describe with text. Same with pullouts - I don't know what you're doing so I don't know how to improve. Just make sure you're getting a really good dolphin kick in there.





The most important thing you can do though, is practice. Keep doing drills that will help you, do some interval training to build endurance, etc. Good luck!|||the key thing to improving breastroke is having good pullouts and turns.


you should also focus on getting your butt high and keeping your knees close together while you kick.|||breaststroke is my best stroke.


heres what i do


- make sure to glide!!!


-pullouts and turns have to be good. use the pullout to catch your breath


-never turn to look in the other lane


-touch with 2 hands (obviously)


- stretch before. i tend to get very sore in my legs when i do breaststroke