Fitter & Faster is producing a 1-day swim camp for competitive swimmers ages 12 & Over at Doylestown YMCA in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on January 4. Please click here for the swim camp page for ages 9 to 11!

BACKSTROKE & BREASTSTROKE TECHNIQUE SWIM CAMP (Ages 12 & Over)
-> DAY 1 (Sunday, January 4): Backstroke Technique

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🕘 SESSION START TIMES FOR BOTH DAYS: Check-in 3:45 PM, Camp 4-7 PM

Suggested Participants

Our top priority is to provide a world-class learning experience for all camp participants. This camp has sessions for swimmers ages 12 and over. Participants will range from one year of competitive swimming experience to AAAA times and faster. If you are the parent of a child under the age of 12, CLICK HERE!

Curriculum

BACKSTROKE TECHNIQUE SWIM CAMP: January 4, 2025

Over the course of two days, your swimmer will work with our world-class clinicians, gaining invaluable skills to enhance their performance. They’ll refine essential techniques, including powerful kicks, efficient pulls, and optimal body positioning, all designed to maximize speed and minimize effort in both breaststroke and backstroke. This immersive, hands-on experience will refine their technique and build their confidence in the water.

DAY 1 (Sunday, January 4): BACKSTROKE TECHNIQUE: Moved from December 27 to January 4th Due to inclement weather. To excel in the backstroke, refining essential techniques like body line, catch, kick, and pull is essential. Swimmers will work with our Elite Clinicians during this session to finesse their skills, ensuring faster and more efficient performances in backstroke races!
Bodyline: A competitive swimmer’s bodyline is the key to fast swimming. The name of the game is to eliminate all extra movement of the body including even the slightest bobbing, wiggling. Participants will learn and practice proper posture and engagement of their core to have a strong foundation for better technique - creating a full-body connection for more hydrodynamic and efficient backstroke.
Rotation: Backstroke is fastest and most efficient when a swimmer’s body is “rotating” around their spine with each stroke. This part of swimming Backstroke has a big effect on maintaining a proper bodyline. Participants will practice activating their core muscles to form a powerful connection from head to toe with every stroke - resulting in faster backstroke!
Kick: A swimmer’s kick is the motor behind their Backstroke! There are obviously proper and improper ways to kick which we will review at the camp. Just as important, however, is practicing the complexities of how and when swimmers need to “shift gears” in their legs to become stronger and faster racers.
Pull: Just like in freestyle, the pull in backstroke keeps a swimmer balanced and accelerating forward. Essentially the best swimmers are creating a paddle with every stroke. The clinicians will work with participants to establish an early vertical forearm “the catch”, enabling the swimmer to put immediate pressure back on the water. Properly completing the stroke keeps the swimmer moving forward efficiently and fast.

ASK QUESTIONS

Swimmers and parents are invited to ask the clinicians questions during a Q&A session. Gain insight into their training regimen, diet and nutrition, and recovery tactics.

WATCH THE CLINICIANS

Observe clinicians swim at full speed and demonstrate a progression of perfectly executed drills to achieve powerful, efficient and fast swimming.

PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST

Throughout the camp, swimmers will practice what they've learned with some of the world's most elite Swimmer Clinicians and coaches!

Take a photo, get autographs, and chat with your clinicians!

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