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And now in 2019 he's broken sub-57. What an athlete! And thanks for the great insights into just how he does it!

Team GB basically reinvented breaststroke. Now everyone is trying to swim like Peaty

Excellent video my friend. I haven’t seen so much science and math in a race before an I learn’t a lot of it! Thank you very much!

Breaststroke is way different from what it used to be. It's almost like they're trying to toe the line between breaststroke and something else because breast is an inefficient way to swim. The aesthetic gets increasingly closer to butterfly in a way, which makes sense for efficiency reasons.

Great video...covered a lot of interesting ground coherently. Amazing how there is such a huge gap between number 1 in the world and everybody else.... highly rare in any sport.

VERY good analysis-thanks

The most remarkable thing about Peaty is his high turnover. Other guys extend their streamline and basically stop swimming every stroke. Why? Peaty proves that if you're a strong athlete, there is no reason to pause at the end of your kick.

"breastrokers" @0:30 LOLOL

The record was set at European Champs, not World Champs right?

Adam Peaty's tempo is absolutely insane. Watching him swim breaststroke next to other people it almost looks like they're swimming in slow motion because of how fast Peaty's tempo is.

Watching this before a meet 😂

breaststroke is the best stroke haha

This is the best explanation of swimming speed I've seen on the web. Feres, you are as good as Maglischo and right there with Doc. The one thing you're not talking about is Adam's amazing upper body -- his pull. Every great breaststroker has a great kick. But only Peaty and Dressel pull this strongly. The (ok some!) Japanese have a similar ability to get into streamlined position before kicking (still very rare even in great breaststrokers). But they aren't great strong athletes in the way Dressel and Peaty are. This is one of the most obvious and missed parts of great breaststroke swimming and training. Ask any coach you want how fast his or her swimmers pull and you get a blank stare. It matters. A lot. So does keeping from pushing out to the side walls and turning the hands upside down.

hes now at 56.88 lc m, but can he break van der burgh's 100 sc m wr?

Really helpful thankyou! I realise now my legs were too wide. There is such a variety of techniques shown in breastroke videos by swimming instructors so I picked up a bad habit. I spent years training my kick actually, though I didn't realise it accounted for as much as 80 percent of the forward momentum of the breastroke. I would swim many lengths using only my leg kick, arms behind back, or holding an inflatable raff in front of me, focussing on keeping my whole body rigid, flat on the surface of the water which increase my efficiency and speed through the water. My arm stroke though was never well developed. I could not coodinate it with the leg kick. No matter how much slow mo swimming videos I watched I could not put both together, yet I play piano which requires me to play a right hand melody and completely different notes in the left hand reading two different lines of piano music one above the other at the same time. So why could I not coordinate the arms and legs? Breaststroke has got to be the most inefficient stroke though! I wonder who invented it. I mean who thought to swim with this technique. I can understand using it as a diver while underwater. When I trained breastroke I actually experimented with staying underwater longer-staying underwater for two strokes, then coming up for air. Probably didn't do my time any good, but I found it more enjoyable to spend more time underwater and to train myself to stop going up for air. I adore just swimming underwater, and the only reason I like breast stroke is that it was half underwater. From there I started swimming 100 percent underwater using a combination of freestyle and breaststroke, or breaststroke with only the leg kick. I sought to find the most comfortable efficient way to swim in the water, that left me less out of breath and was the most enjoyable. I think any swimmer would find swimming totally underwater and only coming up to surface when absolutely necessary for air is the most enjoyable swimming experience. I greatly admire free divers. But alas the best I could do in diving was to stay underwater for 1 min 10. seconds, which is feeble.There seemed to be some physical limit for me, maybe a very mild form of asthma. I would commonly swim 2 lengths of the pool, all underwater, was such a thrill, and everybody would be like "where's he gone?", and the lifeguards would keep getting worried until they got used to me. But starting with the breastroke, that stroke inspired me to stay underwater during the stroke for longer and longer until I never came up for breath so I'm grateful for the breastroke for that.

U should make this an app many swimmers will use it

You had me at 1.9m, 86 kgs

Cameron van der burgh and many others sub 27 seconds

56.88 WR

I was born in December too and I’m a Breastroker it must be something in the moons 😂

what is the difference between Cycle Count and Stroke Rate

Bruh my yards time is barely faster than this. The hell

You look like you could be Tom Daley's dad

6:01 which means no glide is what im see in adam peatty and i just dont understand it. No one gets his glude like where is it isn't that one of the most important part of breaststroke.

yup

It was actually European champs

What can you do if you are a short swimmer

also wasn't the second fastest person in history James Wilby after that same race?

He's done a 56.88 in July this year (2019). Absolutely bonkers!

Because is butterfly from a tall and Big guy. Thats it

It's easy. He chops his stroke. The kick creates the most propulsion, he gets more kicks than others.

Based

He has a very narrow kick

He breathes on the outsweep not the insweep like everyone else

56.88 now

i'm only 169 cm tall 57kg , I've got two skinny legs. great i've got no chance to be a fast swimmer

Also it was 57.00 not 57.10

My breststroke time is 1:34 for 50 m

He went 57.00 not 57.10 but good vid

2018 World Championships?????? Huh? Uh, no. Try the 2018 EUROPEAN Championships.

It was 57.00 not 57.10

Ha Ha, in 2019 56.88

This is great except for one thing… his first 50m time was 26.65 not .75

He is not 1.9

What's the Big Deal here.... Swimming is fun. healthy and relaxing.

It was 57.00 are you high

Dressel better

Nerd