Aerobic exercises such as running, walking and cycling are known to elicit a PEH (post-exercise hypotensive) response in both trained and UT (untrained) subjects. However, it is not known whether swim exercise produces a similar effect in normotensive individuals. The complex acute physiological responses to water immersion suggest swimming may affect BP (blood pressure) differently than other ...

Sport ability may be seen as relatively stable, genetically determined and not easily modified by practice, or as increasable with training, work and effort. Using the Implicit Association Test (IAT), the purpose of the present study is to examine whether the practice of a particular sport (swimming or basketball) can influence automatic beliefs about sport ability in these two sports. The IAT ...

Marinho DA, Amorim RA, Costa AM, Marques MC, Pérez-Turpin JA, Neiva HP. “Anaerobic” critical velocity and swimming performance in young swimmers. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 80-86, 2011. Recent studies explored a new trend of critical velocity as a parameter to evaluate and monitor anaerobic training. The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between anaerobic critical v...

The objectives of this study were to examine whether sustained exercise training at four water velocities, i.e. nearly still water (control), 1 body length (BL) s-1, 2 BL s-1 and 4 BL s-1, has effects on swimming performance and digestive metabolism in juvenile black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus). The results demonstrated that fish subjected to sustained training at 2 and 4 BL s-1 showed signif...

The use of swimming aids during training contributes to greater swimming efficiency by the improvement of the swimming specific power of the athlete. The purpose of this study was to compare the swimming stroke technical characteristics and the physiological responses of swimming 100-m backstroke, with and without the use of paddles at maximum and sub-maximum intensities at the same swimming sp...

BACKGROUND The authors have shown that rats can be retrained to swim after a moderately severe thoracic spinal cord contusion. They also found that improvements in body position and hindlimb activity occurred rapidly over the first 2 weeks of training, reaching a plateau by week 4. Overground walking was not influenced by swim training, suggesting that swimming may be a task-specific model of l...

This study aimed to determine the effects of diets chronically supplemented with branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) on the fatigue mechanisms of trained rats. Thirty-six adult Wistar rats were trained for six weeks. The training protocol consisted of bouts of swimming exercise (one hour a day, five times a week, for six weeks). The animals received a control diet (C) (n = 12), a diet supplemente...

PURPOSE This study aimed to determine whether hypoventilation training at supramaximal intensity could improve swimming performance more than the same training conducted under normal breathing conditions. METHODS For a 5-wk period, 16 triathletes (12 men and 4 women) were asked to include one supramaximal set of 12 to 20 × 25-m front crawl swimming twice a week into their usual swimming sessi...

The purpose of our paper is to show how computer science is helping to develop knowledge of swimming sport. Two samples are used in this paper: the analysis of swimming competition and the fluid mechanics applied to swimming. Methods and variables are defined to perform the analysis of competition showing the statistical approaches used to study the relationships with the performance. Methods o...

[Purpose, Case, and Methods] A female bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in captivity developed necrosis of the tail flukes. Although the diseased site healed after surgical resection, the loss of approximately 75% of the tail greatly affected her swimming performance. To restore swimming ability, we developed artificial tail flukes as a prosthetic swimming aid and provided physical therap...