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Relative Contribution of Arms and Legs in 30 s Fully Tethered Front Crawl Swimming
| Summary: | The relative contribution of arm stroke and leg kicking to maximal fully tethered front crawl swimming performance remains to be solved. Twenty-three national level young swimmers (12 male and 11 female) randomly performed 3 bouts of 30 s fully tethered swimming (using the whole body, only the arm stroke, and only the leg kicking). A load-cell system permitted the continuous measurement of the exerted forces, and swimming velocity was calculated from the time taken to complete a 50 m front crawl swim. As expected, with no restrictions swimmers were able to exert higher forces than that using only their arm stroke or leg kicking. |
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| Main Authors: | Morouço, Pedro, G. |
| Other Authors: | Marinho, Daniel A.; Izquierdo, Mikel; Neiva, Henrique; Marques, Mário C. |
| Subject: | Adolescent Adult Arm Athletes Biomechanical Phenomena Female Humans Leg Male Swimming Video Recording |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | article |
| Access type: | open access |
| Associated institution: | Universidade de Leiria e Oeste |
| Language: | English |
| Origin: | IC-online |
| Summary: | The relative contribution of arm stroke and leg kicking to maximal fully tethered front crawl swimming performance remains to be solved. Twenty-three national level young swimmers (12 male and 11 female) randomly performed 3 bouts of 30 s fully tethered swimming (using the whole body, only the arm stroke, and only the leg kicking). A load-cell system permitted the continuous measurement of the exerted forces, and swimming velocity was calculated from the time taken to complete a 50 m front crawl swim. As expected, with no restrictions swimmers were able to exert higher forces than that using only their arm stroke or leg kicking. |
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