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Depends on how many area you do per breath. As I mentioned, I teach beginners to breathe every 3 arms. When you transition to a pool workout, breathing every two arms will speed you up and be more efficient (and you will breath to one side only). 3 is good, therefore you’ll breath to both sides. Hope that helps! 👍
Nice explanation, calm and easy to understand, thank you! Can you guys make a video about the dolphin kick? It's the one I'm having a hard time trying to do it 🤧
"In out together" - can you please elaborate on whether arms and legs coordinate simultaneously? I cannot coordinate properly; I seem to be using my arms and legs simultaneously, and of course, I still cannot breathe yet. I have been swimming for 5 weeks.
Sure, that is the trickiest part. I use those words to time the actions and get you moving. But when you drill down into the stroke you find that the legs snap and you use that snap the propel you forward as the arms pull to lift you out. So in more advanced technique the legs go before the arms by a very small amount. I will do a video for you soon to explain the exact timing - but if you need any exercises or help, get in touch with us by email and I can help you out!
So that is more of an advanced technique and yes can be useful in pool conditions. This is more of a broad explanation and something I teach beginners to be able to sight themselves in the pool. I will mention this advanced technique in our future advanced series 👍
Technically both. You start with the shoulder initiating the pull. The elbow bends and helps get your hand moving and the shoulder brings the power. I will do a video on high elbow pull - but that will be part of our swimming advanced series. Thanks 👍
Nice explanation i am a beginner, i m struggling to breath second time how can i exhale? First breath has to be easy. I don't know please explain. I know i m holding my breath after taking my first breath
Thank you for the comment. Make sure you are fully exhaling underwater, and breathing in when you lift your head out of the water. Practice standing still, exhaling for three seconds underwater (blowing bubbles) and lift your head to breath. If you are still struggling let me know and I’ll make a video for you to explain how to practice 😁 good luck!!
@@AaquaticsUK Yes please make a video, I'm still struggling, I feel like after I exhale fully in the water, and I turn to the side, I don't have enough time to breathe 😢
I will do! Give us a couple of weeks and I’ll get one out for you. But in the meantime, make sure you are extending your arm full and pulling all the way back. That will give you enough time to fully inhale and also benefit your stroke by pulling back more water behind. Let me know how you get on and follow us for your video 👍
Thank you for your kind reply, I did standing practice for breathing that time I can do easily, at swimming freestyle timing is a big problem still I am struggling please please make an easy breathing video sir, it will be useful for me
Apologies. We had to have the fan running in the pool, we have tried our hardest to improve the audio in our newer videos! Thank you for the suggestion 👍
I love the way you teach. You don’t just show how to do it but you explain what every bit of movement does, why we do it & its effect on the water. As a beginner I appreciate this. Please do more videos. Am having a hard time breathing on my side during freestyle. I also failed my treading with eggbeater kick test. Will take the class again and hope to pass with your coaching🙏 (mom from 🇨🇦)
Thank you very much for the kind words! We have a video coming out in this series that talks directly about how to breathe to the side in front crawl (freestyle). It should be out in a few weeks. Good luck with your eggbeater kick test! 😁😁
Hi, I had total knee replacement on my both knees, I want to learn breast stroke. But because of total knee operation I can’t bend completely, to bring my legs near my bottom. I can bend only upto 90% . So do you think I can’t do breast stroke properly?
Best to follow your doctor’s advice. But from experience this won’t be a problem for you at all. Even with the limited range of motion, you will still be able to perform the leg action and it will help you to strengthen the associated muscles and tendons around the joint. I’d recommend trying it with the legs in isolation, perhaps buy yourself a pool noodle and pop it under your arms and try the leg action. I will film a video for you soon, to show different ways to practice all of these things in multiple ways. In the meantime best of luck, let us know how it goes! 👍 If you have any more questions, please feel free to reach out.
Some coaches teach high elbow pull (fingers facing the floor of the pool) engaging lats instead of the pull you are showing. Can you please clarify which is better ?
This can cause excess rotation in the shoulder and cause drag when returning the hands to the neutral position. Better to not fight the water and keep as efficient as possible, to ensure a sustainable stroke over hundreds (or thousands) of repetitions
Yes as I mention, we don’t want to create too big a circle in front of you. A reasonable size, but definitely don’t let your arms go behind your shoulder line when pulling back! 👍
This is one of the clearest instructional backstroke kick tutorials I've come across. I'm still learning and this has been a big help. Thanks for posting.
Try moving yourself through the water in a shallow depth. Get used to the feeling of the resistance of the water pushing you in the other direction. Use your sculling hands to move left, right, backwards and forwards. The practice your flutter kick lying on your back, get some power in there and get moving. Then finally put it all together treading water. Let me know how it goes and I can give you more tips if you need 👍👍
Excellent tutorial on breast stroke... made it look so simple...you've a great way of putting it across.. Could you also show how to use the hands and breathe in breast stroke
@@AaquaticsUK If you could please be very kind to show us more ways to excercise the quads/lrgs or just enjoy the pool without knowing how to swim that would be awesome. Have a good day.😊
