Guys
just like what the post says I am looking for advice which is a good wetsuit for OW breaststroke swimmers. I was told by a Blueseventy technical rep that he would recommend the most flexibe hoch is the BS Helix.
Anyone advice s most appreciated.
thanks
You’re laying up a big softball for me to tell you that you need to learn to swim freestyle between now and the race, but I won’t.
For those who do what you are doing the knee-length sleeveless wetsuit seems to be the most commonly used. Full legs will pull your legs up higher and make you feel like your face is being pushed into the water. For the sleeveless part, the motions of the breaststroke just do better with no sleeves.
Good luck.
Please tell me you’re doing a full distance swim entirely by breaststroke.
Perhaps a sleeveless wetsuit would be a good option if the water won’t be too cold?
I’d want a sleeveless shrot wetsuit… but as mentioned if the water is colder, you’ll need sleeves. I’ll do a couple strokes of breastroke if I’m struggling with sightign or need to catch my breath for seomreason (suck in a wave) and full length legs definitely have a lot of restruiction. You’ll really need a suit that’s flexible in the groin. Honestly, you might even be best with a 2 piece wetsuit and only using the top for breastroke. I don’t think sleeves will affect the stroke much, but might make you feel unbalanced.
Just curious, by why do you ask the question? Breastroke is the slowest stroke and least effcient stroke … by a large margin.
Hi, no advice on wetsuit but can I offer you my story for what it’s worth…
I was YOU for the last few years. Breaststroke for the whole distance, was pretty fast, for breaststroke anyways, but developed major IT band issues, and hit a plateau in my swim time that I couldn’t get past. I read countless articles and suggestions about how I need to learn freestyle, and even read many things about how the whip kick of breaststroke can cause the IT band issues. At that point I tried and I couldn’t swim 50m freestyle without stopping.
But I made a decision… No looking back. Sometimes in life we have to take one step back to move two steps forward. Exactly the case here. Fast forward 6 months, I only swim once per week and I am 100% freestyle now, still slow at 30min per 1500, but no IT band pain, and I have so much confidence, AND there’s no plateau, I know I can continue to improve.
Feel free to PM me, I hope this helps!
If you find it difficult to perform a whip kick with a wetsuit substitute a dolphin. Easy to do. In fact, do that anyway. You’re less likely to hurt someone.
I’m not going to assume that you can’t swim Freestyle, but actually like breast stroke, so the things you’ll want to look for are:
Even buoyancy throughout the suit. You do not want one of the suits with higher buoyancy in the legs (I was doing some breaststroke for fun in my HUUB 3:5 and almost did a somersault because of the leg position).
Thin neoprene, since you want flexibility in both the upper body and the legs for BS. Blueseventy Helix would be good, the Archimedes 4:4 would be good, the top end Sailfish would be ok.
thanks for all the info guys,
honestly
I can swim freestyle about 2:00/100 yard apparently after 100 yards i run short of breath and needs 30s to 45s to recover. I am still consistently practicing ,but my event is 5 weeks from now and i believe i will not be freestyle ready ,but I can knock of he swim with BS. Therefore i will be doing mixed Free and BS.
Again thanks guys for the all the info.
thanks for all the info guys, honestly I can swim freestyle about 2:00/100 yard apparently after 100 yards i run short of breath and needs 30s to 45s to recover. I am still consistently practicing ,but my event is 5 weeks from now and i believe i will not be freestyle ready ,but I can knock of he swim with BS. Therefore i will be doing mixed Free and BS.
Again thanks guys for the all the info.
What are the distances of your tri???
thanks for all the info guys, honestly I can swim freestyle about 2:00/100 yard apparently after 100 yards i run short of breath and needs 30s to 45s to recover. I am still consistently practicing ,but my event is 5 weeks from now and i believe i will not be freestyle ready ,but I can knock of he swim with BS. Therefore i will be doing mixed Free and BS.
Again thanks guys for the all the info.
What are the distances of your tri???
Olympic distance 1500m
When doing breast stroke please, please, do not be in the middle but off to side. Please do not start at the front.
When doing breast stroke please, please, do not be in the middle but off to side. Please do not start at the front.
This. If you don’t start at the back you are going to (a) kick a lot of people (b) get swum into and neither parties are going to be very happy.
I should swim fly for an oly swim… … 20:00 would be more challenging then.
When doing breast stroke please, please, do not be in the middle but off to side. Please do not start at the front.
This. If you don’t start at the back you are going to (a) kick a lot of people (b) get swum into and neither parties are going to be very happy.
im well aware of the repurcussions ill start at the side or at the back of the pack. I will be th last on my wave hopefully i can avoid those behind me ill duck dive low that way i dont clock someone and end their day.
When doing breast stroke please, please, do not be in the middle but off to side. Please do not start at the front.
This. If you don’t start at the back you are going to (a) kick a lot of people (b) get swum into and neither parties are going to be very happy.
im well aware of the repurcussions ill start at the side or at the back of the pack. I will be th last on my wave hopefully i can avoid those behind me ill duck dive low that way i dont clock someone and end their day.
If I were you, I’d try a 1500m in the pool swimming freestyle for 50-100m, then breast for 25m, then back to free, etc, and just see how much free you could stand to do in one continuous 1500m, or 1650 yd if in 25 yd pool. Assuming you could do over half of it free, then count the number of lengths you do breast and then you can subtract to get your number of lengths of free. You could get a rough time estimate also, in addition to seeing precisely how much freestyle you can stand:)
I should swim fly for an oly swim… … 20:00 would be more challenging then.
Ya, I think we need some tri’s require say a 1500m fly swim, or a 1600 IM, although swimming back in OW would be challenging even for the best backstrokers. However, if swum in the pool, no problem. FINA and ITU should get together on this, since it would open a whole new avenue of swimming/triathlon competition. We could have soon-to-be classic events like 200 fly/2000m bk/800m run:)
I should swim fly for an oly swim… … 20:00 would be more challenging then.
Ya, I think we need some tri’s require say a 1500m fly swim, or a 1600 IM, although swimming back in OW would be challenging even for the best backstrokers. However, if swum in the pool, no problem. FINA and ITU should get together on this, since it would open a whole new avenue of swimming/triathlon competition. We could have soon-to-be classic events like 200 fly/2000m bk/800m run:)
Maybe you have 2 options… a 1200IM OR 1500M Freestyle. How does that workout for time? Is 300M enough to make up for the slower speed? Probably for a good IM’r. If you can do a 20:00 1500, can you do better than a 20:00 for a 1200IM?
FOr hte backstroke, just have an actualy lane rope strung between the regular buoys for sighting to the side.
say … 3:40, 3:50, 4:30, 3:30… so 15:30… yeah I’d be faster even with taking the 300 Fly easy. BTW we had an 11 year old girl swim 2:42 LCM 200 Breast yesterday at age group nats
I should swim fly for an oly swim… … 20:00 would be more challenging then.
Ya, I think we need some tri’s require say a 1500m fly swim, or a 1600 IM, although swimming back in OW would be challenging even for the best backstrokers. However, if swum in the pool, no problem. FINA and ITU should get together on this, since it would open a whole new avenue of swimming/triathlon competition. We could have soon-to-be classic events like 200 fly/2000m bk/800m run:)
Maybe you have 2 options… a 1200IM OR 1500M Freestyle. How does that workout for time? Is 300M enough to make up for the slower speed? Probably for a good IM’r. If you can do a 20:00 1500, can you do better than a 20:00 for a 1200IM?
For the backstroke, just have an actually lane rope strung between the regular buoys for sighting to the side.
Moto - Great ideas you have there!!! A 1200 IM would prob be faster for a good IM-er.