Abstract Recent studies have pointed out the effect of personality traits on athletes’ performance and success; however, fewer analyses focused relation among these features specific athletic behaviors, skills, strategies to enhance performance. To fill this void, present paper provides evidence what mostly affect mental skills and, in turn, their a sample elite swimmers. The main findings were...

Some basic haematological characteristics of a group of competitive swimmers were compared with haematological "normal standards" and with a "control" group of non-athletes, unmatched for age. In the women, the values for red blood cell count, haemoglobin concentration, and mean red cell volume for both the swimmers and the controls were not significantly different from the normal standards. In...

PURPOSE We aimed to characterize the cardiovascular, lactate and perceived exertion responses in relation to performance during competition in junior and senior elite synchronized swimmers. METHODS 34 high level senior (21.4 ± 3.6 years) and junior (15.9 ± 1.0) synchronized swimmers were monitored while performing a total of 96 routines during an official national championship in the technica...

Performance trends in elite butterfly swimmers are well known, but less information is available regarding master butterfly swimmers. We investigated trends in participation, performance and sex differences in 9,606 female and 13,250 male butterfly race times classified into five-year master groups, from 25-29 to 90-94 years, competing in the FINA World Masters Championships between 1986 and 20...

Our aim was to compare non-linear and linear mathematical model responses for backstroke start performance prediction. Ten swimmers randomly completed eight 15 m backstroke starts with feet over the wedge, four with hands on the highest horizontal and four on the vertical handgrip. Swimmers were videotaped using a dual media camera set-up, with the starts being performed over an instrumented bl...

The diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide (DLCO) provides a measure gas transfer in the lungs. Endurance training does not increase lung volumes or land-based athletes. However swimmers have larger lungs and better than other matched athletes controls. aim this study was to evaluate pulmonary alveoli-capillary elite aquatic athletes, specifically swimmers, artistic water polo players. participa...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) involves self-directed metacognitive subprocesses and motivational beliefs that facilitate more effective efficient learning. We investigated whether youth swimmers who are on track to becoming elite apply SRL frequently in their daily training sessions compared with not this track. Insights into swimmers’ use of training-centered could advance understanding about ...

Background: Specific strength intervention can influence muscle activity during swimming performance and increase pain. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the effect on pain simulated crawl in elite swimmers. Methods: Fifteen Czech swimmers (4 females, 11 males) within age 22.8 ± 3.4 years participated study. At baseline, evaluation performed. For shoulder joint assessment, v...

A combined intervention of strength and endurance training is common practice in elite swimming training, but the scientific evidence is scarce. The influences between strength and endurance training have been investigated in other sports but the findings are scattered. Some state the interventions are negative to each other, some state there is no negative relationship and some find bisected a...