Breaststroke Sprinting Tips

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Summary: In breaststroke sprinting races, such as the 50 meter and 100 meter race, shorten your glides to swim as fast as possible. Get expert tips on sprint races for the breaststroke in this free competitive swimming video lesson.

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Phillip Toriello Phillip Toriello was a competitive swimmer for Salinas High School, USAFE Swim Team and Cuesta College. He has also been a surfer, a lifeguard, a swim instruc... read more

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Breaststroke Sprinting Tips

PHILIP TORIELLO: Hello and welcome to Expert Village. I'm Philip Toriello from the Avila Bay Athletic Club. Breast Stroke Sprint Races include the 50, the 100--well, the 50 and the 100, basically. During these type of races, you are going to be shortening the glide time. Basically, again, you're not going to be focusing on conserving energy, you're going to be focusing on spending that energy as fast and quickly as you possibly can. Again, it's about getting there first, not about showing off your glide or your technique so much. But again, the thing I'd like to reiterate is that you're not going to want to compromise your technique so much. You're just going to want to make it faster. Shorten the glides, sharper, closer, inward-outward sweeps, and recoveries, and again, keeping that body low and close to the water. Higher turnover, shorter glides are the key to breast stroke racing, in sprint races in particular.