Santiago Soares Bufalo, Gabriel Fontanetti, Renan Vieira Barreto, Gabriel Rocha Benazzi, Rubens Correa Junior, Victor Marangoni, Natália de Menezes Bassan, Benedito Sérgio Denadai, Camila Coelho Greco, João Paulo Vilas-Boas, Leonardo Coelho Rabello de Lima
Our aim was to investigate if using a warm-up routine that included parachute-resisted sprints with large hand-paddles improves 50 m freestyle performance in trained collegiate swimmers. Twelve swimmers (23.9 ± 2.2 years, 179 ± 7 cm, 77.1 ± 10.6 kg) participated in the study and completed two 50-m freestyle races, each preceded by a different warm-up routine, either control (CON) or experimental (EXP). The warm-up routines consisted of 500 m of swimming at self-selected speed, followed by four 10 s sprints with 1 min rest intervals...
2023: Frontiers in sports and active living