Clean Up Breaststroke Recovery

• ‘Slicing’ the hands through the water with intensity on Breaststroke recovery is key
• The Glide Paddle (+ Wrist Trainer) helps swimmers feel the resistance and find better recovery angles

Feedback (Swimmers FEEL / Coaches SEE / Video for Self Analysis):

• Practice high speed recovery with the least amount of resistance
• Focus on a shallow extension with the least downward angle
• Video or monitor from the side to see a clean, shallow extension

Power Bags: On Calves

• Completely NEW way to feel and train the kick!
• Restricts knee bend
• Add drag for pull sets
• Fires up your Breast kick

Power Bags: For Breast Kicking (bags on feet or Calves)

• Power the breast kick
• Hide breast recovery
• Help finish whip on Breast kicking
• Increase calf awareness

Power Bags for Breast Kicking

Using the Power Bags for adding Drag Resistance for Breast Kicking

Power Bags: On Forearms (hand out or in Fist)

• Power the stroke and recovery
• Build recovery muscles and speed
• Increase recovery speed
• Improve ‘high elbow’ or EVF Catch

Power Bags: On Kickboard (Note only the PB40 size fits on Kickboards, not PB25)

• Slide a Power Bag over the nose of most standard kickboards (tighten straps as needed)
• Leave front of bag open to add resistance to normal kicking
• Insert a pull buoy or other items into the bag on the front for high resistance
• Add 1 strap belt around your waist and use other strap belt to drag the kickboard behind you
• Drag over your feet to prevent kick from breaking surface for more power
• Drag over your thighs to prevent thighs from breaking surface when breast kicking on back

Power Bags: As a High Elbow Development Tool

• Hold any standard pull buoy around the biceps to develop a high elbow catch
• Ideal for swimmers struggling to learn drills such as our ‘dropped elbow drill’ to create  high elbow and forearm catch stroke
• Simply slide  buoy into each Power Bag, then slide the arm into the bag and tighten the bag above the elbow

1FlexBand: Train the Ideal Breast Kick

• Better than a buoy between knees as the buoy forces the hips too high instead of hips moving forward
• Controls a shoulder-width breast kick (with knees in the 2 outer cuffs)
• Trains the ankles to quickly flex out and catch as much water as possible (when knees are in middle and outer cuff)
• Trains a complete whip kick around and back behind the body (knees in middle and outer cuff)
• Add the Power Bags to the feet (close the bottoms to keep feet inside bags) for more breast kick power
• Kick vertical with the 1FlexBand to ensure the most power and quality

Feedback (Swimmers FEEL / Coaches SEE / Video for Self-Analysis):

• FEEL your feet recover fast and fully
• FEEL your feet catch water with the outer edge of feet as high as possible
• FEEL your feet (big toes) finish completely together
• SEE the feet finish up close to the surface and not down below the body

Wrist Trainer: Improve Breaststroke Catch

• The Wrist Trainer can help drive the elbows up quickly on the breast catch
• An early catch requires some wrist bend while not too much (about 15-20 degrees)
• Use it with the Precision or Glide Paddles for Breaststroke catch
• Normal sculling, outsweep drills with these paddle options
• With the Glide paddle the out scull has to be very flat and deliberate
• With the Precision (or Precise) paddle, the catch will not allow much dropped elbow

Feedback (Swimmers FEEL / Coaches SEE / Video for Self-Analysis):

• FEEL the Wrist Trainer pressing on your wrist as you catch
• Drive your elbows forward and your fingertips down