RESEARCH ARTICLE
Mathematical Basis for Modeling Swimmer Power Output in the Front Crawl Tethered Swimming: An Application to Aerobic Evaluation
D.M. Pessôa Filho1, 2, B.S. Denadai *, 2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 1
First Page: 31
Last Page: 37
Publisher ID: TOSSJ-1-31
DOI: 10.2174/1875399X00801010031
Article History:
Received Date: 27/03/2008Revision Received Date: 20/05/2008
Acceptance Date: 28/05/2008
Electronic publication date: 27/6/2008
Collection year: 2008
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Abstract
The purposes of this manuscript were to discuss the propelling hydrodynamics in human tethered swimming, and its application to strength evaluation and to approach power-time limit model (P-tLim) in tethered-crawl (PuTeth-tLim). Physiological and mechanical characteristics of tethered and free swimming have shown to be very similar, and thus tethered swimming is a reliable condition for evaluation and training. Hydrodynamics assumptions for hydrofoil in free swimming were applied for tethered swimming to support the power-time limit model reproduction. Critical power in crawl-tethered (PuTethCrit) was shown to be closely related to the critical velocity determined during free swimming and performance of competitive distances ranged from 200 to 1500-m. These results recognize the PuTeth-tLim model as a suitable method to reproduce P-tLim model in swimming, but the reliability of the PuTethCrit as an index of aerobic capacity, and training intensity must be explored in further researches.
