How do the breaststroke hand and foot movements work together?

1. Stomp your legs and keep your hands straight.

2. Float forward for a while with the power of the stirrups, keep your hands straight and your legs straight.

3, feel almost forward to start paddling, head out of the water to inhale, legs or keep straight.

4, after paddling the water hands in a posture in front of the chest, head buried in the water, to see the bottom of the pool.

5, hands forward, at the same time curved legs to start stirrup action.

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Amateur freestyle propulsion by hand, as long as the hand force is enough, some people even Amateur breaststroke is the other way around, relying on the feet to propel, the role of the hands to breathe, an adult's blood is only about five liters or so, lung capacity is also limited, breaststroke legs of oxygen consumption is extremely large, much larger than the freestyle kick.

If both hands and feet are exerted, amateur swimmers simply don't have that much blood to supply oxygen. Therefore, in general, amateur breaststrokers' hands are mainly used to make their heads come out of the water to breathe, and if there is any energy left, they will only be used for propulsion.

There is one more important technique to be aware of in the breaststroke, which is that the kicking point, and the position of the foot plate when the knee is straightened, must be kicked backward, which is ignored by most amateur swimmers, and the feet are kicked outward, often kicking the swimmers who swim next to them.

Please think about it, if you kick your foot diagonally outward, all the power is kicked out to the side, if you kick your foot outward at 45°, half of the propulsion is lost, you are kicking very hard, but you are slower than someone else who kicks gently, and it may be that this is the reason why you are slow and can't swim very far. The most likely cause of this problem is that the kicking point is too close to the two footboards, as long as the two footboards are separated, the problem can be solved.

The main reason why amateur swimmers find it hard to swim the breaststroke and stay out of the water is that they don't glide with their whole body straight, and they don't make good use of the glide time when they are at their highest speed.

We saw the Olympic gold medalists swimming breaststroke, as if it was non-stop action without pause, so we also learn them, in fact, even the Olympic gold medalists, swimming breaststroke there is a pause in the action, that is, when both hands and feet are straightened, but their pause time is very short, the general public can not be seen.

When both hands and feet are straight, the speed is the highest in the breaststroke cycle, and we swim for this speed. Since the speed is at its peak, we have to glide along with it, and then make the next cycle when the speed drops.

If we start paddling with both hands when the speed is highest, we will immediately destroy the flow pattern, instantly causing the speed to drop drastically, and the propulsion of the previous movements will be wasted. Effective swimming is not about swimming hard, it's about taking the flow into account and not destroying it.

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