García, Iker, Franchek Drobnic, Casimiro Javierre, Victoria Pons, and Ginés Viscor. Severe hypoxic exercise does not impair lung diffusion in elite swimmers. High Alt Med Biol. 22:90–95, 2021. Background: Exercise performed at high altitude may cause a subclinical pulmonary interstitial edema that can worsen gas exchange function. This study aimed to evaluate whether there are changes alveolar–...

Abstract. Introduction: The mental health of elite athletes has been recognised as great importance. There have relatively few studies examining the prevalence problems in swimmers. None commented on range psychosocial associated with ill-health. aim this study was to identify common and Methods: conducted a national swimming squad competing at international level. All (n=55) were invited parti...

AIMS The study aims were to evaluate the validity of two commercially available swimming activity monitors for quantifying temporal and kinematic swimming variables. METHODS Ten national level swimmers (5 male, 5 female; 15.3±1.3years; 164.8±12.9cm; 62.4±11.1kg; 425±66 FINA points) completed a set protocol comprising 1,500m of swimming involving all four competitive swimming strokes. Swimmers...