It takes me an hour -- and 30 takes me three-quarters of an hour, so that's probably a solid 10 per quarter hour -- and that's breast-stroke with occasional rest-lengths of back-stroke, usually no more than two. Do bear in mind that I'm a triped not a quadruped (though I do try to do one length each time using my leg) so you ought to be faster than I am.
The advice given immediately above about frog/needle and breathing is how I was taught. The other thing is that you can actually do breaststroke with just your arms, and your legs trailing. Breaststroke is all about the arms. (Especially for me!) Or you can do it combined with a modified crawl flutter leg stroke -- that's hard to describe, but it works. Hmm. Think of treading water, and what your feet do for that.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2006-07-06 12:17 pm (UTC)It takes me an hour -- and 30 takes me three-quarters of an hour, so that's probably a solid 10 per quarter hour -- and that's breast-stroke with occasional rest-lengths of back-stroke, usually no more than two. Do bear in mind that I'm a triped not a quadruped (though I do try to do one length each time using my leg) so you ought to be faster than I am.
The advice given immediately above about frog/needle and breathing is how I was taught. The other thing is that you can actually do breaststroke with just your arms, and your legs trailing. Breaststroke is all about the arms. (Especially for me!) Or you can do it combined with a modified crawl flutter leg stroke -- that's hard to describe, but it works. Hmm. Think of treading water, and what your feet do for that.