How can I make my time faster in breaststroke?

Question

Im a 13 year old boy in about 3-4 years I want to qualify for the canada olympics team and right now my time is 1:28 I want to make this lower because this year the time is 1:01 to qulaify so i'd have to lose 27 seconds and is this fast for my age?

Answer 1

what distance are you swimming though?? Just practice, practice, practice. Push yourself until you think you can't go any faster, and keep pushing past that even. you will get very fast, now is a good time to start. Good Luck

Answer 2

why dont you ask your coach.  I ask mine and she is sooo helpful.  isnt that what a coach is for?

Answer 3

Constant arm turn over.  Alot of breaststrokers make the mistake of pausing the arm turnover during the glide phase but to truly achieve speed you can't have a stopped or stalled moment in your stroke.  Practicing the armstroke while using a freestyle or butterfly kick can be a useful drill for this purpose.  Good luck in London 2012.

Answer 4

Idk. But i am 12- I swim a fifty breast in 41 secs. so i guess i swim like a 1:30 iin 100.

Umm...no WAY can u drop time at all

Answer 5

Aha! I'm guessing you swim in a 50 meter pool. I am a 13 year old girl and my time is 1:30 so I'm saying a 1:28 is fast, not EXCEPTIONALLY fast but pretty good. 1:01 is veryyy fast though. Um, I can give you tips to improve your breaststroke. First of all, on your start, make sure you curl your thumbs around the block - your thumbs give you extra power. Do a long underwater pull-out and make sure the 1 extra fly kick is really strong. In your actual stroke make sure your shoulders come up high like you are shrugging them. Keep your head still and facing down. Do your pull with as much as a vertical forearm and snap the catch really quickly. You should glide just enough to get you ahead but not enough to slow you down, but make sure it is a pretty good glide. If you put your hands out of the water on the catch make sure they do not go too far out of the water. On the kick bring your heels close to your butt, but not out of the water. Snap your heels together quickly. You should have good ankle flexibility in order to push as much water as possible with your ankles. Make sure both the kick & pull are strong. Don't go too fast on your first 50. Negative splits [when you go faster on your second half of the race] are scary, but efficient. Try never to go much faster than you think you could at the end of the race. Sprint the last 50 harder than the first...they'll come out pretty equal because you obviously normally go faster the first 50. On your kick, make sure you lift your hips at the beginning then throw your hips and legs back. Keep as straight a line as possible on the water. For any stroke, your core, chest, and head keep body position and your hands/arms and legs/feet move you forward. Don't get that mixed up!!!!!

Hope I helped a little. Good luck =]

Answer 6

Although the girl who answered second is correct about most of the technique of breast stroke, I believe she is incorrect about you swimming in a long course pool. The world record is around 59 seconds, your not going to have to go that close to a world record to make the Canadian Olympic team. (They aren't exactly the fastest swimmers) So, 1:28 SC yards is pretty bad for a 13 year old breaststroker in the USA, but in Canada it might not be that bad. If you are swimming LCM it isnt quite as bad, but you still have quite the task of making a near world record to qualify. I practice 5 Hours a day during the summer and 4 hours a day during the school year. One of the greatest things about breaststroke is the glide. Use it to your advantage!!!! Get in as tight a streamline as possible during this time and practice lengthening out your stroke. You want to be able to go as fast as possible by using a little amount of energy as possible. once you find a good balance, (play swimming golf:swim a 50 breaststroke, and add the time you get to the amount of strokes out take and see how low you can get your final number.) then try going fast. A swimmer can only go max speed for 8-12 seconds, so wait until the end of your race to use this ludicrous speed. Build, or get faster, throughout your race. Practice turns!!! Turns are very important, they can win or lose a race for you. When doing your turn, pull your knees up to your chest and tuck one arm below your body and when your push off bring your other arm up over your head, look on youtube for tutorials. The same goes for the breaststroke pullout. Good luck and I hope this helped. =]