Strength and Conditioning Strength and conditioning is an essential component in swimming. It can be used to increase the swimmers speed and power in the water. These exercises should incorporate routines that will build the swimmers foundational and swimming-specific strength.
The foundational strength exercises can be used to develop full-body strength that is essential for building power throughout a swimmers race. The swimming-specific exercises on this website will correlate to increasing the breaststrokers power, speed, and overall efficiency in the water.
This website contains two pages for foundational strength, one addressing exercises to increase the strength of the upper-extremity and the other for the increasing the strength of the lower-extremity. In addition, this website contains a stroke-specific strength and conditioning page, which lists dry-land routines swimmers can perform that will correlate to efficient breaststroke.