02/18/04 20-Yard Pool Breaststroke Practice

02/18/04 20-Yard Pool Breaststroke PracticeAs a kid, I swam a lot of yards in the local YMCA 20-yard pool, so I kinda like short pools. They're great for working on turns and pullouts, and for working with a swim tether. I doubt if I have enough strength to swim 25 yards against a commercial swim tether, but I can JUST make 20 yards. The pool where I live is 20 yards, so I like to use the tether whenever I swim there. Here's the practice I did this morning.WARMUP: 600With fins. [4 X (40 SA drill + 40 LA drill + 40 SA Drill)] + 120 FreeMAIN SET #1: 1200Swim 3 rounds of the following:200 breast kick in all different postions (40 yards each of Underwater Breast Kick, Hand-Lead Kick on Your Back, Hand-Lead on Your Stomach, Head-Lead on Your Back, Head-Lead on Your Stomach). Wear a pull buoy for the entire 200.5 X 40 Drill/Swim, using a different Breaststroke drill on each 40Round #1: Wear fistgloves for the entire round. Wear pull buoy for the 200 kick.Round #2:Nekked hands for the entire round. Wear pull buoy for the 200 kick.Round #3:Wear paddles for the entire round. Wear pull buoy for the 200 kick.When kicking with the pull buoy, my focus was to keep my kick narrow, and not come to a complete stop at any point. My focus on the swims was to KEEP MOVING -- to keep flowing through the water with no dead spots in my rhythm or my stroke. MAIN SET #2: 400With a swim tether.10 X 40 Breaststroke, taking approx. 10 bobs as recovery between each 40. I tried to maintain 10 strokes per length against the tether, and 8 to 9 strokes with the tether. Again, I tried to focus on flowing through the water with no dead spots.WARMDOWN: 300200 Breast kick with a kickboard120 FreestyleTotal Yardage: 2520