Muscles used in swimming breaststroke

We have all heard that swimming is a full-body workout, but how does this translate to our muscles?

What muscles does swimming work?

Although major muscles such as the lats (latissimus dorsi) are primarily used in swimming and known as the swimmer’s muscles, with so many stroke varieties, we can work so many muscle groups in our back, core, arms, and legs.

Swimming uses a variety of muscles across our arms, shoulders, back, chest, core, and legs. The lats, pecs, biceps, triceps, abs, glutes, and quads benefit greatly from swimming.

However, the lats and pecs are used predominately across all four strokes.

In this article, we will discuss the swimming muscles worked, sharing all the primary and secondary muscle groups used with each swim stroke, detailing how they are used.

I will cover:

• The Front Crawl (aka freestyle)
• The Breaststroke
• The Backstroke
• The Butterfly

Which Muscles Do I Build Swimming Front Crawl?

The front crawl, which is more popularly known as the freestyle, is one of the fastest swimming strokes and can require enormous amounts of power to swim fas

muscles used in swimming butterfly

muscles involved in backstroke swimming