The Effect of Training Paddle and Training Rubber Resistance on The Speed of 50-m Freestyle Swimming of South Sulawesi Swimming Athletes

Abstract

Swimming is a type of water sport, apart from beautiful diving, synchronized swimming, and water polo. The sport of swimming has become popular in quantity. This has been indicated by the increasing number of swimming associations in big cities and regions in Indonesia. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of training using paddles and training using rubber resistance on 50-meter freestyle swimming speed. This research was an experimental study with 20 swimming athletes as subjects, 10 subjects who did paddles training and 10 other subjects who did rubber resistance training. The training was carried out in 16 sessions during the research. The results showed that there was an effect of paddles training on 50-meter freestyle swimming speed with a difference value of 2.156 and indicated in the significant category. The results of rubber resistance training also showed that there was significant effect of 2.036. at 50-meter freestyle swimming speed. By the results of this analysis, it can conclude that there are effects of paddles training and rubber resistance training on 50meter freestyle swimming speed.