Individual medley swimming
The individual medley combines four strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Practising it adds variety to your swimming and works your whole body.
You will need
- Swimming pool
Steps
Learn the order
In the individual medley the order is butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle, usually front crawl.
Make sure you have the basics of each stroke
Learn butterfly to backstroke
Learn backstroke to breaststroke
Learn breaststroke to freestyle
Swim 4 × 25 metres
Put it together into 100 metres
Use it in training
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