how  can i make my breastsroke go faster in competitvie swimming?
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It usually works out that you are either good at fly and breast or back and free. Assuming that your basic mechanics are sound the best way to improve on your breaststroke is to work on the kick. The whip kick is a part of the stroke that makes the difference between an average breaststoker and a great one. Concentrate on keeping your knees inward and your toes outward on the start of the kick. Once completeing your kick, point your toes and stretch. Keep it short but powerful. If the kick isn't your problem work on refining your timing. Most swimmer's timing can be tweaked a little. Do you do your recovery with high shoulders and hands out of the water? Work on a short, but powerful arm stroke - hands always in front of your chest and explode into your extension or glide. Good Luck.
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Swimming is exersize!  Any movement in a pool is good!  Just try simple arobics in the pool!  Good luck!
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Well, i'm 16 and at the moment I can swim (crawl) 200metres (+-219 yards) in about 2mins and 8secs (I've done better :-), I stopped swimming for a while), when I was 12 or 13, i did this in about 3mins 30secs. What stroke are you refering to, crawl/freestyle, or breaststoke, or backstroke , the strokes are important in comparing time.  Good lengths to do are (sorry i work in meters :-)) 50meters (mine- 30secs), 100 meters (mine +- 1min 3secs), 200 meters, 400 meters. To get better, get your daughter to concentrate on her breathing (this increases ones lung capacity and makes them in a way fitter), in crawl- try not to breathe every 2 strokes but every 3 (breathing once on either side) If shes already doing that then great. Obviously make sure she doesn't overdo it. She can also use a board and just kick for 100meters and then just use her arms (no help from legs) for 100meters and then for another 100 meters arms and legs together, this will also help go faster (obviously all this takes time and it must be constant-everyday, every second day ect). Hope that helped.
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freestyle, 'cuz u can swim a whole hour w/o tiring much, breaststroke is too slow
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All I would say.  You are so posed to be exactly alike in your moves.  What every body part the other swimmer has you must have that too.  lol\nIt helps if you can float also.
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Work on your stroke technique. If your strokes are sound, work on the hydrodynamics of your body. Keeping your body streamlined, in the correct position, and energy efficient while in the water. If you are talking about improving your times in competitive swimming in the pool, work on the transitional parts of your swim, the start, turns, and finishes.
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Well you should do all strecthing like everything else, ur legs, ur arms especially. i like to go to the gym and life some light waits and work on my legs, there is a machin that is like rowing a boat that really helps ur arms get the motion of swimming. Just go to a gym and try their different machines. it will work wonders!!! good luck!
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When doing backstroke make sure your arm touces your ear as it goes past it also has to touch your leg. Keep your head strait and looking back. Keep your arms strait, and your legs straight when you kick, and kick consantly. I see lot of people kicking from their knees, this is rally bad, kick from your hips. Practice kicking hugging a kickboard. Also when you are doing it see if you can find a straigh line that goes all the way down the pool andfollow that.\nI hope this helps!
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well, i'd the same problem before. my freestyle was slower than alot of my teammates. well, the best thing to do is to work on you legs and your kick. well, the dryland thing is to use the leg press which you will find alot of football players use cuz it makes your leg stronger. then, you need to work in your kick. the best way is a kick board. grab one and start kicking for about 20/25 100 yards a day, or as much as you can, if you can only do 1000 yards this will be fine. after a while, you will notice that your kicks r stronger and that you r moving faster in the water. then, you start working in both you kick and arms. well, take a long fast strong pulls with your arm and never stop kicking. also, stretch your arm all the way in front of you and pull all the way down till your arm is fully stretched then get it out and keep going. make sure your kick is going fast. then see the difference. you will be really faster. it worked for me, i hope it will work for you.
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It's not too late.  In swimming I had trouble with Butterfly for a long time because my arms are so much weaker than my legs.  There is a special kind of weight lifting you can do that will REALLY help your butterfly (as well as stroke power in general) and it's called a VASA bench. Butterfly was never my stroke and it was killing my IM (im a backstroker...fyi) They work miracles...the season I started doing it (Junior year of high school) I went from a 1:04 to a 57 in my 100 fly.  YOu can probably find a VASA bench at a high school with a swim team, or maybe a fitness center.  you can also buy them too, they cost around 1000 dollars.
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WOW that's really fast!!!!  With that time you will win every swim meet!!! \n\nActually you might want to repost under the running forum :)\n\nBTW you are already fast, and if you see potential to go faster go for it!
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Practice doing your butterfly at a slow pace. It will feel awkward because you are sinking but visualize the position of your body. Visualize your body following your head. Each movement will be exaggerated when swimming slow. Practice this until the motion feels comfortable. Pick up the pace concentrating on your body position. You will notice that as you speed up your body will be in a more comfortable position.\nPractice without breathing, then practice breathing every stroke. The key to the timing is a keeping that small second kick, even when your taking your breath. Practice with fins to get the feeling of your kick.
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They best type of swimming is constant motion. You have to get you heart rate and keep it up to burn fat. Do whatever is your best stroke for at least 20 minutes to start burning fat. Aqua aerobics are wonderful also. As far as toning. Breast stroke is a great workout it target a lot of muscle groups. More than freestyle and backstroke and its a lot easier than butterfly. Breast stroke is an easy stroke to learn, (not easy to master) but once learned you can keep it up for a while.
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the basic of swimming is that u must breath in i.e fill ur stomach with air then streach ur legs nd hands nd start flapping them like a bird(only legs) nd as far as ur hands r concerned move them in the backward direcion like dis(ur hands->,<)\n\n 1 <(position of ur hands in the forward direction)   then             2 >(backward direction)
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If you improve your endurance you should be able to go about 55 - 56 soon. \n\nYour 50 time is 24.55 so if you went out at about 90% of that (27.)you could swim your second 50 in 29 and be at 56.\n\nKeep working at it. Share your goals with your coach and you can be in the low 50's before you know it!
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float, crawl, swim. strokes - freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly stroke. Just keep hitting your hands and feet in the water to remain afloat in the early stages.
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Yes, keeping your legs straight will make you go faster.  You need to think of yourself as a needle or torpedo in the water.  You want the least resistance as possible so staying straight will make you go faster.  You want to kick from your hips and point your toes.  I used to have a large sissors kick and it only slowed me down.  Other swimmers kept pointing this out to me and I concetrated on keeping my legs together.  You can feel your thighs rub together and let your big toes touch each other each time you kick.  Now that I don't have a big sissors kick and I'm more streamlined I can swim 20 seconds faster for 250 yards.