Relative Contribution of Arms and Legs in 30 s Fully Tethered Front Crawl Swimming.
The relative contribution of arm stroke and leg kicking to maximal fully tethered front crawl swimming performance remains to be solved. Twenty-three national level young swimmers (12 male and 11 female) randomly performed 3 bouts of 30 s fully tethered swimming (using the whole body, only the arm s...
| Publicado en: | BioMed Research International Vol. 2015; pp. 1 - 7 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
10/11/2015
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