The aim of the present study is to compare swimming
stroke characteristics of young national Olympic
swimmers and swimmers from Olympic Preparation
Centers of Turkey in Adana (TOPC) by using
underwater video record system. Anthropometric
and skinfold thicknesses of the swimmers’ were measured.
Body fat and body mass indexes were calculated.
50m front crawl swimming performances
were recorded with an Underwater Moving Camera
System. Statistical analysis procedures were carried
out by using SPSS-V21 software with Independent
Samples t-Test and Mann Whittney-U test. The significance
level was accepted as p<0,05. Time, velocity,
stroke count (SC), stroke rate (SR), stroke length (SL)
and stroke index (SI) parameters were calculated by
using an Underwater Analyze Software. There were no
significant differences between swimmers’ body mass
index, body fat percentage, ectomorph, endomorph,
hand and foot length data (p>0,05). Body mass, arm
span, mesomorph, muscle and bone percentage of national
swimmers were found significantly higher than
TOPC swimmers (p<0,05). Time, average velocity and SI
data of the national team were found significantly better
than TOPC team swimmers (p<0,05). There were no
significant differences found on SC, SR and SL data of
two groups (p>0,05). The results of our study show that
defining the data expressing female swimmers’ stroke
characteristics and analysis have great importance to
improve swimming performance. We posit that developing
stroke length, stroke index and consequently
swimming techniques are essential to achieve elite-level
performance improvement in the long term.
Konular | Spor Hekimliği, Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi |
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Bölüm | Makaleler |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 14 Kasım 2017 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 2 Ocak 2017 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2017 Cilt: 28 Sayı: 2 |
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