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How the Breaststroke Pull Has Evolved
Modern breaststroke traces its roots back to ancient eastern Egypt, where cave paintings depict people swimming the stroke. It’s been described in many cultures around the world, and it’s theorized that the stroke originated by swimmers m...
What Swimmers Need to Know About Shoulder, Knee, and Hip Replacements
Prescott Masters Swim Team member Brigid Bunch knew she’d swum into the danger zone when shoulder pain awakened her at night. The ice, rest, and occasional cortisone shots that once eased her discomfort no longer provided relief. Eventually, he...
Inaugural HBCU Celebration Swim Meet Kick-Starts Interest for All Levels, Ages
Miriam Lynch found her community in the local swimming pool while growing up a child of military parents. Because of her love for the sport, as well as her desire to raise awareness about swimming and water safety among the Black community, she&ndash...
Maximize Your Breaststroke with This Dryland Workout
Breaststroke requires a unique balance of power, timing, and body position. With a few exercises focused on training these key attributes, you can use dryland training to help improve your efficiency in the water. When you build strength and power (a...
Dryland Exercises to Improve Your Breaststroke
Breaststroke requires a unique balance of power, timing, and body position. With a few exercises focused on training these key attributes, your dryland training can improve your efficiency in the water. We’ll also focus on a few exercises that ...
What Equipment New Swimmers Need to Start Swimming and How to Care for It
When you join a Masters group, of course you know to bring suit, goggles, cap, and towel. But there are some other pieces of basic training equipment that will both enhance your training and help your swimming evolve. There are other pieces of equipm...
How to Do Underwater Kicks
The major components of successful underwater kicking are maintain a stable platform, create as much propulsion as possible, maintain equal propulsion and tempo in both directions, and maintain a posture that reduces drag.
How to Swim Breaststroke
The major components of successful breaststroke are strong catch and propulsive arm action, strong catch and effective kick action, drive forward, timing of the arms and legs, and streamline posture.
How to Have Perfect Butterfly and Breaststroke Turns
All breaststrokers and butterflyers can tell stories of how they missed a turn or short-armed a stroke going into a turn. The anxiety that comes from deciding in a split-second whether to take another stroke can be a distraction and slow you down. Is...
How to Maintain Your Rhythm While Swimming Butterfly
There are many things to see and learn from at swim meets. It’s often overwhelming, but if you look for just one or two things, it’s easy to pay attention to the details. Take butterfly, for example. Some people cringe at the thought of s...
