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Warm-Up and Performance in Competitive Swimming [PDF]
Sports Medicine, 2013 Warm-up before physical activity is commonly accepted to be fundamental, and any priming practices are usually thought to optimize performance. However, specifically in swimming, studies on the effects of warm-up are scarce, which may be due to the swimming pool environment, which has a high temperature and humidity, and to the complexity of warm-up ...
Neiva, Henrique +4 more
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Biomechanics of competitive swimming strokes [PDF]
, 2011 Competitive swimming is one of the most challenging sports to perform scientific research. Not only the research of human movement is quite complex, because human beings are not so determinists as other (bio)mechanical systems; but also, assessing human beings in aquatic environment becomes even more as this is not their natural environment and other ...
Barbosa, Tiago M. +3 more
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Sources and sustainability of the cycle of high-performance competitive swimming in Serbia [PDF]
Fizička Kultura, 2021 The subject of this paper concerns the nature of individual changes and the origin of organizational ones that have led to the progress and breakthrough results of competitive swimming in Serbia.
Jevtić Branislav
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Turn Fast and Win: The Importance of Acyclic Phases in Top-Elite Female Swimmers
Sports, 2021 The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of start and turn performances on race times in top-elite female swimmers and provide benchmarks for all performance levels, all swimming strokes, and all race distances of the European Short-Course ...
Dennis-Peter Born +3 more
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‘Doing’ competitive swimming: Exploring the skilled practices of the competitive swimming lifeworld [PDF]
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2020 Despite a developing literature on various facets of sporting embodiment, there is currently a research lacuna with regard to in-depth analyses of actually ‘doing’ sporting activities within specific physical cultures. In this article, we address that gap by drawing on a developing theoretical literature in sociological phenomenology to investigate a ...
Gareth McNarry +2 more
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Swimming turn performance: the distinguishing factor in 1500 m world championship freestyle races?
BMC Research Notes, 2021 Objective Turn sections represent the second largest part of total race time in 1500 m freestyle races and may substantially affect race results. Therefore, the aim of the study was to investigate individual race strategies and compare the effect of ...
Marek Polach +3 more
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Pedagogical dimension of swim training as perceived by swimmers and their coach
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022 This article presents the educational benefits and drawbacks of competitive swimming training as assessed by the surveyed swimmers and their coach.
Bartłomiej Lassek
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BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2021 Background Respiratory symptoms are common in competitive swimmers. However, among these and in swimmers at other activity levels the swimming distance, the total spent time in swimming halls and their medical background varies.
Marja Päivinen +5 more
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Biology, 2022 The present study investigated the effect of 9 weeks of combined resistance training (aquatic and dry land resistance) on maximum lower body strength, leg kick, and swimming performance in competitive swimmers.
Sofiene Amara +6 more
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Genetic characteristics of competitive swimmers: a review
Biology of Sport, 2021 A successful swimming performance is a multi-factorial accomplishment, resulting from a complex interaction of physical, biomechanical, physiological and psychological factors, all of which are strongly affected by the special medium of water as well as ...
Sigal Ben-Zaken +4 more
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