Swim Class: more breast stroke

Today we learned about the push off for breast stroke. When you push off from the wall, you glide until you feel yourself slowing down. At that point you do one strong stroke with your arms, pushing down to your sides and then pushing the water behind you. Then you do one kick, and at that point you should be surfacing and starting your normal stroke.

She also mentioned that at the end of the stroke, where we're about to go down into the glide, we should imagine we're going over a barrel. So it's a little dive-like.

We did a bunch of laps at various intensities and various strokes. The last lap was 50m all-out freestyle. I think I was 48s. I was already sucking wind at that point, so it's all I could push out.

On a side note, before class started, I tried to swim from one end of the pool to the other on one breath, and succeeded! It was only 25m, and I thought my lungs would pop, but I made it. YAY!