european college of sport science

PP-TT07 Training and Testing 7
METHODS: 10 young female swimmers (Mean±SD; age 8.4±0.5 years; height 132.5±5.6 cm; weight 33.3±6.1 kg; BMI 18.8±2.1) participate
in the study. They practiced a traditional swim training. In order to assess their kinesthetic awareness and their technical-coordinative
skills, subjects underwent a few representative tests three times over the sport season (T1=November, T2=February and T3=May) such as:
i. diving and gliding underwater in a streamline position (DG); ii. pushing off from the wall and gliding underwater in a streamline position
(PG); iii. diving, gliding and swimming front crawl for 15m (DGC); iv. diving, gliding and swimming breaststroke for 15m (DGBR); v. diving,
gliding and swimming backstroke for 15m (DGBK). The best race performance (BRP) in the 50m front crawl was collected in the meantime.
Data have been compared and the correlations between the technical-coordinative skill tests and BRP have been investigated.
RESULTS: In the within-test analysis, significant improvements were found among all T1, T2 and T3 (p.05), whereas significant correlations (p