ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Elite swimmers do not exhibit a body mass index trade-off across a wide range of event distances.
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- Body Composition Relationship to Performance, Cardiorespiratory Profile, and Tether Force in Youth Trained Swimmers.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Correlations between Crawl Kinematics and Speed with Morphologic, Functional, and Anaerobic Parameters in Competitive Swimmers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Association between theGenes · 2021Article
- Sex-based limits to running speed in the human, horse and dog: The role of sexual dimorphisms.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2021Review
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Abstract
There is a trade-off reflected in the contrasting phenotypes of elite long-distance runners, who are typically leaner, and elite sprinters, who are usually more heavily muscled. It is unclear, however, whether and how swimmers' bodies vary across event distances from the 50 m swim, which is about a 20-30 s event, to the 10 000 m marathon swim, which is about a 2 h event. We examined data from the 2012 Olympics to test whether swimmers' phenotypes differed across event distances. We show that across all swimming event distances, from the 50 m sprint to the 10 000 m marathon, swimmers converge on a single optimal body mass index (BMI) in men's and women's events, in marked contrast with the strong inverse relationship between BMI and event distance found in runners. The absence of a speed-endurance trade-off in the body proportions of swimmers indicates a fundamental difference in design pressures and performance capability in terrestrial versus aquatic environments.
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