PVC Technical Strategy 48

Your mission this week is to swim a total of 500 yards or meters of near-perfect breaststroke technique (every practice) for the next six days. It can include the breaststroke performed in your daily warm-up, main sets, or warm-down. And you don’t have to do all of the yardage in a row. Instead, pick your spots throughout the practice. 

As a PEAK PVC swimmer, challenge yourself to apply as many PEAK techniques as possible. These include: 

• Tight 7-Squeeze Position between strokes. 
• Head-Down-Head-Position with the eyes looking straight down at the bottom of the pool.
• Straight Arm Outward Sweep beyond shoulder width.
• An accelerating high elbow inward scull. 
• Shallow, fast shoot back to the 7-Squeeze Position.
• Late breath timed with the inward scull.
• Elevator Arms Breathing, where the inward sculling arms raise the upper body for a breath.
• Shoot Fast Breathing, where the downward breath moves as fast as the shooting arms.
• Narrow Knee Recovery, where the feet and legs remain within shoulder width. 
• East-West Feet, where the feet turn entirely outward before the Kick Back Phase.
• Snap Back Finish, where the feet snap together at the end of the kick.
• Toe Point Finish, where the feet point backward as the legs come together.
• Inline Body Position, where the back of the hands, head, legs, and soles of the feet form a straight line during the streamline phase.