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Body roll amplitude and timing in backstroke swimming and their differences from front crawl at the same swimming intensities.

Gonjo, T., Fernandes, R.J., Vilas-Boas, J.P. and Sanders, R., 2021. Body roll amplitude and timing in backstroke swimming and their differences from front crawl at the same swimming intensities. Scientific Reports, 11 (1), 824.

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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80711-5

Abstract

The current study investigated body roll amplitude and timing of its peak in backstroke and compared them with front crawl swimming. Nineteen anatomical landmarks were digitised using 80 swimming trial videos (ten swimmers × two techniques × four intensities) recorded by two above- and four below-water cameras. One upper-limb cycle was analysed for each trial, and shoulder and hip roll, whole-body roll (WBR), and WBR due to the buoyant torque (WBRBT) were obtained. Main effects of intensity and technique on the amplitude and timing to reach the peak in those variables were assessed by two-way repeated-measures ANOVA. Swimmers decreased their WBRBT amplitude with an increase in the intensity in both techniques (p ≤ 0.005). The same result was observed for the amplitude of WBR, shoulder roll, and hip roll only in front crawl (p ≤ 0.017). Swimmers maintained the timing of peak WBRBT in both techniques, while they shifted the timing of WBR and hip roll peak toward the beginning of the cycle when increasing the intensity in front crawl (p ≤ 0.017). In conclusion, swimmers maintain the amplitude of WBR, shoulder roll, and hip roll in backstroke when the intensity increases, whereas they reduce the amplitude of all rolls in front crawl.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:2045-2322
Uncontrolled Keywords:Adolescent ; Athletic Performance ; Biomechanical Phenomena ; Hip ; Humans ; Male ; Motor Skills ; Shoulder ; Swimming ; Torque ; Upper Extremity
Group:Faculty of Health & Social Sciences
ID Code:36255
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:16 Nov 2021 11:29
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:30

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