Learn Swimming Breaststroke: Drills and Exercises

The breaststroke is often the first one of the competitive swimming strokes taught to novices.

Nevertheless, its movements can be quite difficult for the beginner to master.

That’s why the following exercises let you learn swimming breaststroke step by step. This prevents struggle and lets you enjoy the experience of learning a new swim stroke.

Learn the Breaststroke Kick on Dry Land

Learn the Breaststroke Kick on Dry Land: This article describes various exercises that allow you to practice the breaststroke kicking movements from the comfort of your home.

Learn the Breaststroke Kick in the Water

Breaststroke Swimming Drills – Learn the Breaststroke Kick in the Water: This article builds upon the skills learned previously on dry land.

It proposes a few swimming drills to practice the breaststroke kick in the water using swim noodles and kickboards.

Learn The Arm Stroke on Dry Land

Breaststroke Swimming Drills – Learn The Arm Stroke on Dry Land: This article lets you practice the arm stroke on dry land.

Rehearsing the arm movements on dry land first makes sense because you can practice and memorize the arm movements without having to care if you are supported by the water or not.

Arm Stroke Drills in the Water

Learn to Swim Breaststroke: Arm Movement Drills in the Water: The next article to learn the breaststroke lets you practice the arm movements in the water, using a pull buoy to provide buoyancy to your legs.

Coordination Drills

Learn to Swim Breaststroke: Drills to Coordinate Arms, Legs and Breathing: This article is the last one in our series to learn swimming breaststroke.

It covers swimming drills to coordinate the arm stroke, kick and breathing.

This time you will use water noodles to provide additional buoyancy and support in the water.

Additional Swimming Drills

Two Kicks, One Pull: Two kicks and one pull is a classic breaststroke drill that lets you focus on your kick and improve your streamline position underwater.

Learning Path for the Breaststroke

Below is an overview of our series of articles on learning the breaststroke. Each article in this series contains one or more drills that have to be mastered. The current article is highlighted:

• Learn Swimming Breaststroke: Drills and Exercises
• Breaststroke Drills – Learn the Breaststoke Kick on Dry Land
• Breaststroke Swimming Drills – Breaststroke Kick in the Water
• Breaststroke Technique: Learn the Arm Stroke on Dry Land
• Learn Swimming Breaststroke – Arm Stroke Drills in the Water
• Learn Swimming Breaststroke: Coordination Drills for Arms, Legs and Breathing
• Favorite Breaststroke Drills – Two Kicks and One Pull

Once you have gone through all the steps of this learning path, you should be able to swim breaststroke without any problems.

Good luck!