SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
How Anthropometrics of Young and Adolescent Swimmers Influence Stroking Parameters and Performance? A Systematic Review.
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- Associations of body morphology and body composition with swimming performance in male and female youth swimmers: an exploratory cross-sectional study.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
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- Identification of key somatic features that are common and the ones that differ between swim strokes through allometric modeling.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- The kinematic profile of ventral swimming start: sex diversity.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this systematic review was to investigate the relationship between anthropometric characteristics, biomechanical variables and performance in the conventional swimming techniques in young and adolescent swimmers. A database search from 1 January 2001 to 30 June 2021 was done according to the PRISMA statement, with 43 studies being selected for analysis. Those manuscripts were divided in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and front crawl techniques as main categories. The results showed the importance of the anthropometric variables for the performance of the young swimmer, although there was a lack of variables common to the studies that analysed the butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke techniques. For the front crawl technique there is a consensus among studies on the advantage of having higher height and arm span values, variables that concurrently with high body mass and lean body mass values, contribute positively to better stroke length and stoke index values.
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