ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2014
Coordination pattern variability provides functional adaptations to constraints in swimming performance.
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- A systematic review of perception of affordances for the person-plus-object system.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Pooled it
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- Sex differences in three-dimensional intra-cycle velocity fluctuation and performance during freestyle swimming among high-level swimmers.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Aquaticity as a Latent Dimension of Aquatic Performance: Conceptual Framework and Application to Breath-Hold Diving.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- Targeting TGF-β-driven fibrotic, epigenetic remodeling and Bax/Bcl-2 through polyphenol-exercise synergy: molecular implications for biomechanical impairment and rehabilitation in cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Neuromechanical characteristics of breaststroke in adolescent swimmers across different performance levels: a comparative analysis.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Trunk rotation coordination in front crawl: which segment leads? Three coordination strategies and their dynamic changes across 400-m split progression in elite swimmers.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Virtual reality-supported video modeling for enhancing motor skill acquisition in swimming.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Variabilities in the stroking parameters during short course 50 m time trials in all four competitive swimming strokes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Quantification of Lower Limb Kinematics During Swimming in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Lower-limb coordination adaptations to shooting distance in basketball: an exploratory angular velocity-based vector coding study.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Stroke Steadiness as a Determinant Factor of Performance in 100 m Freestyle in Young Swimmers.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exploring the structural validity and reliability of the swimming competence assessment scale in college students.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Narrowing the coordination solution space during motor learning standardizes individual patterns of search strategy but diversifies learning rates.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Intra- and inter-individual variability in the underwater pull-out technique in 200 m breaststroke turns.PloS one · 2023Article
- The effect of rhythm training on the motor coordination abilities of 8-12-year-old freestyle swimmers.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Difference in muscle synergies of the butterfly technique with and without swimmer's shoulder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Velocity Variability and Performance in Backstroke in Elite and Good-Level Swimmers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluating the influence of a constraint manipulation on technical, tactical and physical athlete behaviour.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
In a biophysical approach to the study of swimming performance (blending biomechanics and bioenergetics), inter-limb coordination is typically considered and analysed to improve propulsion and propelling efficiency. In this approach, 'opposition' or 'continuous' patterns of inter-limb coordination, where continuity between propulsive actions occurs, are promoted in the acquisition of expertise. Indeed a 'continuous' pattern theoretically minimizes intra-cyclic speed variations of the centre of mass. Consequently, it may also minimize the energy cost of locomotion. However, in skilled swimming performance there is a need to strike a delicate balance between inter-limb coordination pattern stability and variability, suggesting the absence of an 'ideal' pattern of coordination toward which all swimmers must converge or seek to imitate. Instead, an ecological dynamics framework advocates that there is an intertwined relationship between the specific intentions, perceptions and actions of individual swimmers, which constrains this relationship between coordination pattern stability and variability. This perspective explains how behaviours emerge from a set of interacting constraints, which each swimmer has to satisfy in order to achieve specific task performance goals and produce particular task outcomes. This overview updates understanding on inter-limb coordination in swimming to analyse the relationship between coordination variability and stability in relation to interacting constraints (related to task, environment and organism) that swimmers may encounter during training and performance.
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