Swimming velocity patterns in elite women’s water polo: a case study

C. Rechichi, A. Lyttle, M. Doyle and T. Polglaze

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2005, vol. 5, issue 3, 139-148

Abstract: There is a paucity of information on the swimming velocity profiles of elite women water polo players during competitive game situations. This study sought to establish a method to reliably asses the patterns of swimming velocities evident for an elite women water polo player. One full game was filmed and the image space calibrated to allow the swimming velocities of one of the players to be calculated. A reliability analysis performed on the data demonstrated that the reliability of the velocity data was high. The results of the motion analysis revealed a relatively low overall swimming time and total distance swum for the player analysed. It was also determined that, when comparing the results to the player’s maximum swimming velocity, a large proportion of the swims were performed at a relatively low intensity. This tends to indicate that a large proportion of the total energy cost in a water polo game can potentially come from non-swimming activities. The information provided by this sort of analysis can supply objective information that can be used to better tailor swimming conditioning programs to reflect the demands of a game situation.

Date: 2005
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/24748668.2005.11868344 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:5:y:2005:i:3:p:139-148

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RPAN20

DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2005.11868344

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport is currently edited by Peter O'Donoghue

More articles in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().