Butterfly & Breaststroke Turns
How to improve your execution speed?
Erwann Jacob, Guingamp’s coach, says: “to manage performing a quick and efficient turn, the swimmer has to learn to organize himself on the movement. The shoulders and the head must remain in the water with breathe being taken during the turnover phase. To have a benchmark on the execution speed, we can monitor the time spent between the moment the hands touch the wall and the moment the last foot leaves the “push off” phase. Smaller swimmers have an advantage during the turnover”.
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Here are a few of the times (hands touching the wall/feet leaving the wall) made by the arena elite team swimmers during the last Olympics in London 2012 and the 2015 World Championships:
In breaststroke:
- Ruta Melutyte: 1,08 sec in London 2012 and in Kazan 2015
- Adam Peaty: 1,23 sec in Kazan 2015
- Cameron Van der burgh: 0,96 sec in London 2012
- Daniel Gyurta: 1,08 sec in London 2012
In butterfly
- Katinka Hosszu: 1,24 sec in Kazan 2015
- Sarah Sjostrom: 1,26 sec in Kazan 2015
Workout in the pool
8 X (7m+25m) butterfly-backstroke-breaststroke-freestyle: Swim up to 7 meters before the wall, do the…
