Contemporary Swim Start Research

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Contemporary Swim Start Research is a conference book that includes contemporary reports and corresponding studies on swim starts. Young scientists from all over the world have conducted these swim starts with varying topics that relate to individual starts from the block, backstroke starts, and relay starts highlighting different aspects and phases of the corresponding movement behavior. Most of the reports published in Contemporary Swim Start Research have been presented during the 2015 Young Experts Workshop of Swim Start Research supported by the Federal Institute of Sport Science in Germany.

Description

Contemporary Swim Start Research is a conference book that includes contemporary reports and corresponding studies on swim starts. Young scientists from all over the world have conducted these swim starts with varying topics that relate to individual starts from the block, backstroke starts, and relay starts highlighting different aspects and phases of the corresponding movement behavior. Most of the reports published in Contemporary Swim Start Research have been presented during the 2015 Young Experts Workshop of Swim Start Research supported by the Federal Institute of Sport Science in Germany.

You will learn the importance of

  • Underwater phase to elite swimming start performance
  • Biomechanics and motor control
  • Evaluating relay starts
  • Backstroke start technique
  • Postactivation potentiation sprint swimming

About the Editors

Dr. Sebastian Fischer is a senior teacher at the Institute of Sports Science at the University of Kassell, Germany. His research focus is the field of swimming, especially the training load and acyclic drive movement (start and turn).

Dr. Armin Kibele is a professor at the university of Kassel, Germany, and adjunct professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA. He is holding chair for Movement Science and Training Science in the Institute of Sports and Sport Science with focus on swim start research, instability strength training and unconscious information processing in sports.

Additional information

Weight .44 lbs
Date-Published

12/01/2017

ISBN-13

9781782551164

Format

Trade Paper

ISBN

1782551166

Media

Book

Pages

128

Publisher

Meyer & Meyer Sport

Size

6 x 8.25

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