Learn Swimming Breaststroke: Drills and Exercises

The breast stroke is often the first of the competitive swimming strokes to be taught to novices. The exercises on this page are designed to teach you swimming breaststroke one step at a time to avoid struggle. This is important so you can enjoy the experience.

Swimming Drills and Exercises

Learn The Breaststroke's Frog Kick on Dry Land: The frog kick is the kick used in breaststroke. The kicking motion is not unlike that of a frog kicking in the water. This article gives you some dry-land exercises to learn the motions of the frog kick.

Breast Stroke Swimming Drills - Learn the Frog Kick in the Water: This article builds upon the skills learned previously on dry land and proposes a few swimming drills to practice the frog kick in the water using swim noodles and kickboards.

Breaststroke Swimming Drills - Learn The Arm Stroke on Dry Land: The swimming exercises in this article show you how to practice the arm stroke on dry land. Rehearsing the movements on dry land first is easier because you can solely concentrate on what the arms have to do and avoid struggle.

Learn Swimming Breaststroke - Arm Motion Drills in the Water: The next article to learn how to swim the breaststroke teaches the arm motions in the water using pull buoys to support the legs.

Learn Swimming Breaststroke - Drills to Coordinate Arms, Legs and Breathing: This article is the last one in the series to learn swimming the breast stroke. It covers swimming drills to coordinate arm motions, leg motions and breathing. To do this, you will use water noodles for additional buoyancy and support in the water.

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