Relation between the vertical impulse and the performance in swimmers

Abstract

Introduction: with the scientific evolution of swimming, one became necessary to control all the intervening variable in the process of the training, searching parameters that offered trustworth information on its development. The objective of the study was to analyze the possible relation between the vertical impulse and the performance in velocity and fondest athletes of swimming, in the search for plus an variable that supplies to subsidies the control and perfection of the swimming training. Methods: the study it counted on two groups, of velocity (n=7) and fundist (n=4), totalizing a sample with 11 athletes of swimming. The citizens had been submitted to the evaluation of stature, corporal mass, spread and percentage of fat. The vertical impulse was evaluated and the block time with and without against movement of the two groups, to evaluate the performance, the citizens had carried through a taking of time in its specific tests. For analysis of the data, the tests Anderson-Darling for verification of normality of the sample, and Levene for homogeneity of variances had been used. Test “t” was used for equality of averages, and test of significance for Correlation of Pearson. Results: The gotten data had not presented significant differences, enter the vertical impulse with and without account movement, between the studied groups, demonstrating a homogeneity it enters the group of velocity and fondest. Conclusions: The study it indicates that the vertical impulse is not condition to remarkable of performance in swimmers, however suggests it repetition of this study with a bigger size of sample.