Evaluating Warm-Up Strategies for Elite Sprint Breaststroke Swimming Performance
McGowan CJ, Pyne DB, Thompson KG, Rattray B
International journal of sports physiology and performance · 5 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- University or hospital
- University of Canberra
Based on 1 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2016-01-27 · Int J Sports Physiol Perform · vol. 11 · issue 7 · pp. 975–978
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Cited
- 11 citations · more than 70% of similar papers · 0.5× the field average
- References
- 0 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Sports Performance and Training · Thermoregulation and physiological responses · Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Keywords
- Sprint, Time trial, Crossover study, Animal science, Core temperature, Medicine, Confidence interval, Physical therapy, Mathematics, Internal medicine, Placebo, Biology
- MeSH
- humans, lactic acid, body temperature, cross-over studies, skin temperature, heart rate, swimming, female, male, athletic performance, warm-up exercise
4 authors
- Courtney J. McGowan
- David B. Pyne
- Kevin Thompson
- Ben Rattray
Abstract
Purpose
Targeted passive heating and completion of dryland-based activation exercises within the warm-up can enhance sprint freestyle performance. The authors investigated if these interventions would also elicit improvements in sprint breaststroke swimming performance.
Methods
Ten national and internationally competitive swimmers (~805 FINA (Fédération internationale de natation) 2014 scoring points; 6 men, mean ± SD 20 ± 1 y; 4 women, 21 ± 3 y) completed a standardized pool warm-up (1550 m) followed by a 30-min transition phase and a 100-m breaststroke time trial. In the transition phase, swimmers wore a conventional tracksuit and remained seated (control) or wore tracksuit pants with integrated heating elements and performed a 5-min dryland-based exercise routine (combo) in a crossover design.
Results
Performance in the 100-m time trial (control: 68.6 ± 4.0 s, combo: 68.4 ± 3.9 s, P = .55) and start times to 15 m (control: 7.3 ± 0.6 s; combo: 7.3 ± 0.6 s; P = .81) were not different between conditions. It was unclear (P = .36) whether combo (-0.12°C ± 0.19°C [mean ± 90% confidence limits]) elicited an improvement in core temperature maintenance in the transition phase compared with control (-0.31°C ± 0.19°C). Skin temperature immediately before commencement of the time trial was higher (by ~1°C, P = .01) within combo (30.13°C ± 0.88°C [mean ± SD]) compared with control (29.11°C ± 1.20°C). Lower-body power output was not different between conditions before the time trial.
Conclusions
Targeted passive heating and completion of dryland-based activation exercises in the transition phase does not enhance sprint breaststroke performance despite eliciting elevated skin temperature immediately before time trial commencement.
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