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Sharks Practice Plan: Fly and Breaststroke Drills (10/10/2019)

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Warmup

100 IM Kick100 FREE2 x 25 Position 11

4 x 25 on 1:00 FREE

Split up into two groups

Group 1: Breaststroke Focus

3 x SL + 1 BR arm (11, Eat & Breath, 11) + 1 BR K (long glide underwater)

Streamline with no kick. At the surface do the arms with a breath. 11, Eat and breathe, 11. Avoid chicken wings, or hands pushing water past shoulders down to belly. Get underwater again in position 11. Do 1 BR kick. Feel how kick launches body forward.

Group 2: Fly Focus

3 x SL + 2 FLY

SL w/ fly kick, continue kick through the two strokes. NO breath on #1. Optional breath on #2. Hips should RISE when the arms reach into 11. Breathe at the beginning of the stroke when the hands push water down from 11 to the hipline. Hips should drive down to bottom too. Connect hips to the arm strokes.

Get back together into one group

table class="wp-block-table has-subtle-pale-green-background-color has-fixed-layout has-background">tbody>tr>td>Stroke, go down in order/td>td>3 x SL +/td>td>4 x 25:/td>td>1 x 100/td>/tr>tr>td>FLY/td>td>3 x SL + 1 arm stroke no kick/td>td>4 x 25 w/ FINS 2 stroke kick the rest/td>td>1 x 100 Fly kick/td>/tr>tr>td>Back/td>td>3 x SL underwater to the flags w/ fly kicks/td>td>4 x 25 w/ FINS BK K/td>td>1 x 100 BK/td>/tr>tr>td>Breast/td>td>3 x SL + 1x (11, Eat and breathe, 11) + 1 BR K/td>td>4 x 25 2 BR + FR the rest/td>td>1 x 100 BR Kick on your back looking at your feet./td>/tr>tr>td>Free/td>td>3 x SL + 3 FR + Flip/td>td>4 x 25 FR with super quick breaths to the side./td>td>1 x 100 FR Kick with board./td>/tr>/tbody>/table>

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Originally from: https://www.swimminglessonsideas.com/blog/sharks-10-10-2019/

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