Backstroke drills

The best way to get better at backstroke? Refine your technique! Regularly incorporating backstroke-specific drills into your warmup (or even a dedicated drill set) can pay off big time when it comes to speed and efficiency in backstroke. Remember: speed doesn’t mean much if your technique isn’t rock solid. Check out 5 of our favorite backstroke drills that help you improve your head position, stroke tempo, rotation and more, plus a free backstroke swim set to try!

The Backstroke shoulder roll drill would have to be one of the easiest drills to do. Rolling, or rotating your shoulders during backstroke is an essential part of the stroke. It forms the basis of your shoulder and body position when using your arms. When you watch great backstroke swimmers, they rotate their bodies during

One of the most common mistakes in technique that we see in all strokes is in the pulling motion of backstroke. Part of the reason for this technical error is that to pull correctly, a swimmer needs to rotate the body significantly from one side to the other. That involves more work. To avoid that extra work, swimmers often choose to minimize the amount of body rotation. To avoid breaking the surface of the water with the hand moving backward, which reduces power, swimmers find an easier…

Swim Like A. Fish is now on PART 2 of our series on Backstroke Starts. Click here to read about the 3 Best Backstroke Start Drills.

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Mike Anzano on Instagram: "Simple and effective is my philosophy. Make it useful and easy to understand for your team to get the most out of the work you do! What’s your go to backstroke drill? #swimcoach #swimteam"

Swimming faster backstroke is all about balancing technique, speed and power with a killer race strategy. Learn our top training tips to improve your backstroke tempo, speed and efficiency, shave off extra seconds and achieve a new personal best time. Plus, try our go-to backstroke challenge workout to put your stroke to the test!

Kim Brackin on Instagram: "Wednesday mornings on The Farm are stroke groups. The freestylers join the backstrokers for focused drill work before a main set. Today, I led a drill progression from setting up posture, rotation, and catch. Here are the drills in order of appearance on the video. 1. Head Lead Rotation: arms at side, core engaged ("kayak position"), and rotation connected to the kick. 2. Switch drill: from a strong kayak position, drive the arm from hip to entry position AND…