Abstract
In this study, it is aimed to review the effects of 8 week plyometric exercises on certain physiological parameters and freestyle swimming performance of swimmers of age 10-11 who practice swimming with a licence in city of Van. Study group has been created by 24 male volunteer swimmers who practice swimming with a licence in city of Van. 24 volunteer athletes aged 10-11, who are licenced swimmers for two years and who exercise regularly 5 days a week have been selected for the study. The athletes are randomly divided into experimental and control groups of 12. Throughout the study, in addition to swimming exercises, experimental group is scheduled to 3 days a week plyometric exercise program. Control group is not given any additional exercise except from the swimming exercises. It is seen that the obtained data does not show normal distribution and non-parametric tests of Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon Test are used for data analysis. Significance level is taken as p<0,05. As per obtained data, pretest and post test data of male swimmers of experimental group show that horizontal and vertical leaps, anaerobic power, 30m sprint, hand grip right and left, 25 and 50 m freestyle swimming parameters showed statistical significant difference; whereas for control group, weight, height, body mass index, anaerobic power and right and left hand grip force parameters showed statistical significant difference (p<0,05). When the pretest and posttests of experimental and control groups are compared, only vertical leap parameter showed significant difference in favor of the experimental group (p<0,05) and for the other parameters, no statistical significant difference is seen (p>0,05). As a result, it is seen that the 8 week plyometric exercise has a significant effect on vertical leap and even though not statistically significant, it is pondered that it has a positive effect on freestyle swimming duration of experimental group, compared to that of control group.
Highlights
When the human race settled down to pursue their existence in prehistoric times, they preferred to settle down by water
This study aims to reveal the effect of 8 week of plyometric exercise method on certain physiological parameters and performance of swimmers aged 10-11
Even though there is no statistical significance between the group of swimmers of age 10-11 who underwent 8-week plyometric exercise and the control group as per pretest and posttests, there is difference
Summary
When the human race settled down to pursue their existence in prehistoric times, they preferred to settle down by water. Human beings began swimming with more primitive techniques than that of today’s modern swimming, in order to satisfy their hunger and to protect themselves from wild animals (Morpa, 2003; Bozdogan and Ozuak 2003). Since swimming has evolved and improved to become what it is today and is divided into 4 different styles in international competitions. Fastest one in these different swimming styles is the free style swimming. Swimming as a sport is a branch that affects especially the upper extremity power. The facts that lower extremity is powerful at a maximal level and its explosiveness are among the important variables which affect the performance of the athlete (Yapici et al, 2015)
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