Laboratory-based tests for swimmers: methodology, reliability, considerations and relationship with front-crawl performance

Dalamitros, Athanasios A.; Manou, Vasiliki; Pelarigo, Jailton Gregório

doi:10.4100/jhse.2014.91.17

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“…gripping a paddle, oar, or rudder) the last bodily point of contact within the kinetic chain propelling oneself through the water; hence the importance of the hand to performance in most, if not all, water sports. In competitive swimmers, trivial non-significant to very large significant correlations were observed between HGS and freestyle swim performance (12,25,32,57,58,147,200).…”

Section: Handgrip Strength In Water Sportsmentioning

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A Brief Review of Handgrip Strength and Sport Performance

Cronin

Lawton

Harris

et al. 2017

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

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Cronin, J, Lawton, T, Harris, N, Kilding, A, and McMaster, DT. A brief review of handgrip strength and sport performance. J Strength Cond Res 31(11): 3187-3217, 2017-Tests of handgrip strength (HGS) and handgrip force (HGF) are commonly used across a number of sporting populations. Measures of HGS and HGF have also been used by practitioners and researchers to evaluate links with sports performance. This article first evaluates the validity and reliability of various handgrip dynamometers (HGD) and HGF sensors, providing recommendations for procedures to ensure that precise and reliable data are collected as part of an athlete's testing battery. Second, the differences in HGS between elite and subelite athletes and the relationships between HGS, HGF, and sports performance are discussed.

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Section: Handgrip Strength In Water Sportsmentioning

confidence: 97%

A Brief Review of Handgrip Strength and Sport Performance

Cronin

Lawton

Harris

et al. 2017

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

150

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“…The most utilized land ergometers are swim benches where the swimmer imitates the movements of front crawl swimming in a prone position. The validity of these ergometers has been widely discussed in the literature, because the mechanical action required to produce propulsion in the water cannot be exactly reproduced on land (Hall, Bisson, & O'Hare, 1990;Dalamitros, Manou, & Pelarigo, 2014). Furthermore, with a swim bench only arm power output can be measured and this leads to an incomplete assessment of 5 W'TOT.…”

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Mechanical power, thrust power and propelling efficiency: relationships with elite sprint swimming performance

Gatta

Cortesi

Swaine

et al. 2017

Journal of Sports Sciences

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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between mechanical power, thrust power, propelling efficiency and sprint performance in elite swimmers. Mechanical power was measured in 12 elite sprint male swimmers: (1) in the laboratory, by using a whole-body swimming ergometer (W') and (2) in the pool, by measuring full tethered swimming force (F) and maximal swimming velocity (V): W' = F · V. Propelling efficiency (η) was estimated based on the "paddle wheel model" at V. V was 2.17 ± 0.06 m · s, η was 0.39 ± 0.02, W' was 374 ± 62 W and W' was 941 ± 92 W. V was better related to W' (useful power output: R = 0.943, P < 0.001) than to W' (total power output: R = 0.744, P < 0.01) and this confirms the use of the full tethered test as a valid test to assess power propulsion in sprinters and to estimate swimming performance. The ratio W'/W' (0.40 ± 0.04) represents the fraction of total mechanical power that can be utilised in water (e.g., η) and was indeed the same as that estimated based on the "paddle wheel model"; this supports the use of this model to estimate η in swimming.

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“…Isokinetic muscle testing is used in the swimming and has for example been shown to be reliable for establishing association between the functional abilities of quadriceps muscle group and the swimming speed (Dalamitros et al, 2014). Also, a correlation has been found between the isokinetic strength of knee extensors and the flutter kicking in short distance swimming of 25 and 50 yards (Mookerjee et al, 1995).…”

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Relationship between isokinetic muscle strength and 100 meters finswimming time

Kunitson¹,

Port²,

Pedak³

2015

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Kunitson, V., Port, K., & Pedak, K. (2015). Relationship between isokinetic muscle strength and 100 meters finswimming time. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 9(Proc1), pp.S482-S489. Finswimming is a sport where athlete uses one big monofin to produce propulsion. The purpose of this study was to describe relationship between isokinetic strength of different muscle groups and 100 meters finswimming time. Study questions was: what muscle groups have relationship with finswimming time. Methods: 17 international level monfin swimmers, 9 male (age 16,9 ±1,8 yrs., height 180,0 ± 10.0 cm., weight 76.0±6.9 kg) and 8 female finswimmers ( age 17,6 ±4,7 yrs., height 170,0 ± 10.0 cm., weight 68,6 ± 13,5 kg) performed 100 meters monofin surface swim and where also tested within a two days on isokinetic dynamometer (knee, hip and trunk extensors and flexors at angular speeds of 60°/sec ). Force data at angles from 0-90 degrees with 10 degree step were used for correlation. Results: There was a strong correlation (p<0.05) between swimming time and knee extensors (r=-0.82 at angle 50°), hip flexors (r=-0.70 at angle 10°) and trunk flexors (r =-0.77 at angle 20°) in male swimmers. Surprisingly, we did not find corresponding correlations among female finswimmers. Conclusion: Current study found relationship between strength of main muscle groups and swimming speed only in male swimmers. It is expected that strength plays a role in swimming time, but the lack of relationship in female swimmers suggests at the need to introduce a measure of swimming effectiveness instead of pure resultant time. The proposed hypothesis is further supported by the high level of competence among study participants (incl. multiple European champion, and several finalists).

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Laboratory-based tests for swimmers: methodology, reliability, considerations and relationship with front-crawl performance

Cited by 16 publications

References 45 publications

A Brief Review of Handgrip Strength and Sport Performance

A Brief Review of Handgrip Strength and Sport Performance

Mechanical power, thrust power and propelling efficiency: relationships with elite sprint swimming performance

Relationship between isokinetic muscle strength and 100 meters finswimming time

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