What is the toughest stroke to swim?

Answer 1

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Breaststroke is understood by the majority of swimming gurus to be the hardest swimming stroke. Breast:stroke takes extraordinary coordination of many different body parts at once. timing and technique are crucial in the perfection of breaststroke. The stroke involves a large amount of core strength and therefore is very tiring.

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As someone who was a swimmer, it is my experience that butterfly is the most challenging stroke, based mainly on the fact that you have to lift your whole body out of the water with two kicks.

Answer 2

Most people would say that the hardest stroke is the butterfly. However this is only an opinion. The butterfly takes a lot of coordination. It is very tiring, and you have to have pretty strong abs and shoulders.

Answer 3

Breast stroke is the most difficult to learn due to the simultaneous arm action followed by the simultaneous leg action. All through life, crawling, walking, running and even learning the first two strokes freestyle and back stroke we alternate our arms and legs. Usually breast stroke is taught before butterfly and so getting used to the simultaneous action is difficult for most learners.

The general principle is a pull, breath, glide, kick rhythm, to which the feet are dorsiflex when kicking out and plantaflex during the glide to encourage streamling and helping to travel further during the 'glide' or the recovery. to breath is also more difficult in breast stroke as one has to lift the head out of the water by pushing the chin forward and the exhalation under the water is more of a short burst than say front crawl where exhalation is usually trickled.

Once breaststroke is mastered, butterfly is actually a very simple stroke (it is basically the same as front crawl, but instead of alternating arms and legs you use them together)

Hope this answers your question.

Andy- Swimming Teacher

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure its freestyle,Yes it is

Answer 5

The easiest stroke is definitely front crawl. Fortunately, it is also the fastest too, so it is always the best way to go.

Answer 6

The toughest stroke depends on the swimmer. But, in my opinion, the butterfly is the hardest stroke. It requires much work.

Answer 7

Most people say butterfly, but it's different for everybody.

Answer 8

Butterfly