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Step 1
Keep your body level with the water's surface. Your whole body should be in the water with your shoulders straight and your hips flat to the water.
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Step 2
Pull with your arms and draw circles with your hands. Start by stretching them out in front of you, just under the surface of the water. Make a full circle by pressing your hands out and around, keeping your hands in front of your shoulders. Finish the circle by stretching your arms out in front of you again.
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Step 3
Take this opportunity to breathe. In the traditional breaststroke, you raise your head to take a breath when you finish making the circle with your arms.
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Step 4
Move your feet and legs together. Bend your knees and lift your feet up to your buttocks. Turn your feet out and push back with the bottoms of your feet. Your feet need to move both in and out again to meet each other. Keep your knees touching and straighten your legs. It's important for both your legs to be doing the same thing at the same time. Practice until you think you've got the hang of it.
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Step 5
Stretch your body all the way out to make it as long and thin as possible.
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Step 6
Practice repeating the steps over in order to make a complete breaststroke. For a beginning swimmer, this stroke can be a little difficult. Keep practicing and before long, everything will come together quite nicely.
