What muscles does breaststroke exercise?

Breaststroke is a whole-body exercise. It is difficult to say which muscles breaststroke can exercise. It has an exercise effect on muscles throughout the body. For example, when we do breaststroke, we need to use our arms to push the water away, which is to exercise arm strength, and the back is pushing forward, which can also exercise the back muscles. Therefore, for the breaststroke swimming method, we recommend that you can exercise appropriately in your daily life, which will help you improve your lung capacity.

Forearms, pectoralis major, thigh muscles, calf muscles, abdominal muscles, biceps/triceps, pectoral muscles. In short, breaststroke can exercise most of the muscles in the body and make the body streamlined. I personally highly recommend breaststroke for comprehensive exercise of body muscles. All swimming styles can train the muscles of the back, abdomen and waist. The back is the main force-generating part, while the abdomen and waist are used to maintain balance. The stroke action of freestyle focuses on back training, while the pressing and clamping actions of the hands in breaststroke focus on chest muscle training.

The muscle groups of breaststroke are mainly divided into three parts: 1. Arms: mainly upper arm muscles 2. Body muscles, mainly shoulder and back muscles 3. Lower limbs, mainly inner thigh muscles and outer calf muscles. It is slower than other swimming styles because the intensity is not high during amateur swimming. If you want to swim at the same time and distance, butterfly stroke is the fastest, backstroke is second, and then freestyle. For normal swimming, if you want to improve your figure, freestyle is the best, as it is most in line with a streamlined posture. If you practice breaststroke too much, the muscle lines will be different from normal ones. Therefore, it is recommended that freestyle is the best under normal circumstances, and you should swim continuously for a certain distance. If you are able to swim other postures and have a certain amount of physical strength, you can consider cross-practicing with freestyle.

Breaststroke is one of the competitive swimming styles. The human body lies prone on the water, with the arms symmetrically straight in front of the chest and bent sideways to paddle the water, and the legs symmetrically bent and extended to kick and clamp the water, like a frog swimming. Breaststroke is less energy-intensive, easier to sustain, and has great practical value. It is often used in fishing, hunting, swimming, rescue, water transportation, etc. It is also a learning program for swimming beginners. The competition events include 100 meters and 200 meters for men and women.

The above introduces to us in detail which muscles can be trained by breaststroke. I believe you all know that breaststroke has a training effect on muscles throughout the body, so you must know the benefits of breaststroke. We can also use breaststroke in our daily life to exercise our arm strength and lung capacity. It is recommended that you try it more often.