Analysis on the Time and Frequency Domains of the Acceleration in Front Crawl Stroke

• Authors: Joaquín Gil , Luis-Millán Moreno , Juan Mahiques , Víctor Muñoz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The swimming involves accelerations and decelerations in the swimmer's body. Thus, the main objective of this study is to make a temporal and frequency analysis of the acceleration in front crawl swimming, regarding the gender and the performance. The sample was composed by 31 male swimmers (15 of high-level and 16 of low-level) and 20 female swimmers (11 of high-level and 9 of low-level). The acceleration was registered from the third complete cycle during eight seconds in a 25 meters maximum velocity test. A position transducer (200Hz) was used to collect the data, and it was synchronized to an aquatic camera (25Hz). The acceleration in the temporal (root mean square, minimum and maximum of the acceleration) and frequency (power peak, power peak frequency and spectral area) domains was calculated with Fourier analysis, as well as the velocity and the spectrums distribution in function to present one or more main peaks (type 1 and type 2). A one-way ANOVA was used to establish differences between gender and performance. Results show differences between genders in all the temporal domain variables (p<0.05) and only the Spectral Area (SA) in the frequency domain (p<0.05). Between gender and performance, only the Root Mean Square (RMS) showed differences in the performance of the male swimmers (p<0.05) and in the higher level swimmers, the Maximum (Max) and the Power Peak (PP) of the acceleration showed differences between both genders (p<0.05). These results confirms the importance of knowing the RMS to determine the efficiency of the swimmers regarding gender and performance level

Keywords

EN

swimming; Root Mean Square; power peak; power peak frequency; spectrum area

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 109-120

Dates

published

1 - 5 - 2012

online

30 - 5 - 2012

Contributors

author

Joaquín Gil

• Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Universidad de Valencia

author

Luis-Millán Moreno

• Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Universidad de Valencia

author

Juan Mahiques

• Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Universidad de Valencia

author

Víctor Muñoz

• Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Universidad de Valencia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10078-012-0028-2