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Variation vs. Specialization: the Dose-time-effect of Technical and Physiological Variety in the Development of Elite Swimmers by Dennis-Peter Born; Jenny Lorentzen; Glenn Björklund; Thomas Stöggl; Michael Romann is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Variation vs. Specialization: the Dose-time-effect of Technical and Physiological Variety in the Development of Elite Swimmers about?
## Objective It is heavily discussed whether larger variety or specialization benefit elite performance at peak age. Therefore, this study aimed to determine technical (number of different swimming strokes) and physiological (number of different race distances) variety required to become an international-class swimmer (> 750 swimming points) based on 1′522′803 race results. ## Results Correlation analyses showed lower technical variety in higher ranked swimmers (__P__ < 0.001), yet with small effects (0.11–0.30). However, Poisson distribution revealed dose-time-effects and specified number of swimming strokes required during each age group. Specifically, freestyle swimmers showed highest chances when starting to compete in three to four swimming strokes but reduced their variety to three swimming strokes at the ages of 12/13yrs with another transition to two swimming strokes at the ages of 19/21yrs (female/male swimmers, respectively). Although both sexes showed similar specialization pattern throughout their career, earlier specialization was generally evident in female compared to male swimmers. At peak performance age, freestyle was most frequently combined with butterfly. Swimm
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- Author
- Dennis-Peter Born; Jenny Lorentzen; Glenn Björklund; Thomas Stöggl; Michael Romann
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)