Aerobic Evaluation in Elite Slalom Kayakers Using a Tethered Canoe System: A New Proposal

Abstract

In summary, MLSS and CF tests on a tethered canoe system may be used for aerobic assessment of elite slalom kayakers. In addition, CF may be used as an alternative low-cost and noninvasive method to estimate MLSS, which is related with slalom kayakers' performance.

Comparison of Aerobic and Muscular Power Between Junior/U23 Slalom and Sprint Paddlers: An Analysis of International Medalists and Non-medalists

“…Conversely, the whitewater courses require several moments of acceleration and deceleration (Messias et al, 2014), and the aerobic and anaerobic energy systems contribute almost equally (Zamparo et al, 2006). Data reported in Figure 1 confirm previous suggestions regarding the oxidative relevance for sprint and slalom paddlers (Michael et al, 2008;Borges et al, 2015;Ferrari et al, 2017). Likewise, Bielik et al (2019) show that Olympic slalom medalists had similar VO 2max and vVO 2max than the non-medalists.…”

“…Paddling technique along with high force development plays a crucial role for high performance on slalom (Zamparo et al, 2006;Messias et al, 2014Messias et al, , 2015Messias et al, , 2018Baláš et al, 2020) and sprint (Michael et al, 2008;Pickett et al, 2018) canoeing. Studies also suggest an inverse association between aerobic metabolism and race time for both (Borges et al, 2015;Ferrari et al, 2017). Thus, strength and conditioning coaches must plan strategies to improve aerobic fitness and muscle strength/power of paddlers (García-Pallarés and Izquierdo, 2011;Rawlley-Singh and King, 2020).…”

Novel paddle stroke analysis for elite slalom kayakers: Relationship with force parameters

“…However, the results provided by this study share unique characteristics, such as: a) the force parameters provided by our system have been significantly correlated with aerobic [ 30 ] and anaerobic [ 9 ] variables, and with the kayakers’ performances [ 9 , 30 ]; b) in addition to the comparison between the force parameters and paddle stroke results, we also compared the results from the TCS with those from the video recording; c) the TCS and the analysis proposed in this study was developed specifically for canoe slalom, which is also absent in the current literature; d) the perspectives proposed in this study were conducted with a larger sample that included the highest qualified athletes from Brazil; and e) the proposed system also enable real-time force analyses, we also provided a function provided as a supplementary material that enables it.…”

“…Despite recent reports from our group addressing various issues related to the canoe slalom [ 9 , 30 , 33 – 34 ], no study has investigated the relevance of slalom kayaker’s paddle strokes on total force development. To address this, here we describe a significant relationship between the force parameters with both the number of paddle strokes and stroke frequency.…”

Can the elite slalom kayaker’s performance be correlated with anthropometric, nutritional, genetic, psychological as sleep traits?

“…In the last years, studies involving several approaches on the Olympic sport canoe slalom emerged. These investigations provided fundamental advances related to the metabolic demand during simulated race 1 , energy production via aerobic and anaerobic sources throughout physiological evaluation 2,3,4,5 and physical development of slalom kayakers after training 6 . Apart from the metabolic/physiological relevance, other factors such as sleep traits, nutrition, genetic profile and psychological can significantly affect athletes' performance; however, literature involving these factors on canoe slalom is scarce 7 .…”