Longitudinal Development of Physical and Performance Parameters during Biological Maturation of Young Male Swimmers
- 1 February 2009
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 108 (1), 297-307
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.108.1.297-307
Abstract
The aim of the study was to examine the development of specific physical, physiological, and biomechanical parameters in 29 young male swimmers for whom measurements were made three times for two consecutive years. During the 400-m front-crawl swimming, the energy cost of swimming, and stroking parameters were assessed. Peak oxygen consumption (VO2 peak) was assessed by means of the backward-extrapolation technique recording VO2 during the first 20 sec. of recovery period after a maximal trial of 400-m distance. Swimming performance at different points of physical maturity was mainly related to the increases in body height and arm-span values from physical parameters, improvement in sport-specific VO2 peak value from physiological characteristics, and improvement in stroke indices on biomechanical parameters. In addition, biomechanical factors characterised best the 400-m swimming performance followed by physical and physiological factors during the 2-yr. study period for the young male swimmers.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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