Relative Contribution of Arms and Legs in 30 s Fully Tethered Front Crawl Swimming

Morouço, Pedro, G.; Marinho, Daniel A.; Izquierdo, Mikel; Neiva, Henrique; Marques, Mário C.

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The relative contribution of arm stroke and leg kicking to maximal fully tethered front crawl swimming performance remains to be solved. Twenty-three national level young swimmers (12 male and 11 female) randomly performed 3 bouts of 30 s fully tethered swimming (using the whole body, only the arm stroke, and only the leg kicking). A load-cell system permitted the continuous measurement of the exerted forces, and swimming velocity was calculated from the time taken to complete a 50 m front crawl swim. As expected, with no restrictions swimmers were able to exert higher forces than that using only their arm stroke or leg kicking.

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Article number - 563206

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Adolescent Adult Arm Athletes Biomechanical Phenomena Female Humans Leg Male Swimming Video Recording

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/15104

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Morouço, Pedro & Marinho, Daniel & Izquierdo, Mikel & Neiva, Henrique & Marques, Mário. (2015). Relative Contribution of Arms and Legs in 30 s Fully Tethered Front Crawl Swimming. BioMed Research International. 2015. 10.1155/2015/563206.