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Introduction to the Special Issue on Swim & Aquatic Activities

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Editorial

Introduction to the Special Issue on Swim & Aquatic Activities

Swimming is the second Olympic sport and one of the Moreover, physical activities are often associated
most popular around the World. On top of that, it became to well-being and fitness. Therefore, interesting studies
very high-tech, as performance depends from marginal analysed the effect of water exercise (in particular
gains. Scientific evidences on swimming started to be S.W.E.A.T. water exercise which is a method of cues that
published on regular basis in the 1960s. Since then, a very coach indivudals to changes in speed, surface area, im-
unique community dedicated to swimming research pact, range of motion, planes of movement and travel
started to growth. Every four years, swimming scientists through water; see manuscript of Sanders et al.), self-
share their knowledge in the International Symposium on training procedures in leisure swimming (see manuscript
Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming. This scientific of Potdevin et al.) and competitiveness in master catego-
meeting started in 1971 and already had eleven editions. ries (see manuscript of Medic et al.). Two other studies
Beyond the proceeding of these congresses, more than investigate the influence of training with reduced breath-
2000 scientific articles have been published in peer- ing frequency (see manuscript of Kapus et al.) and doing
review journals since 1970. However these publications additional respiratory muscle endurance training (see
mostly concerned competitive swimming with various manuscript of Lemaitre et al.).
interests: physiology & energetics, biomechanics, training Last, this special issue also highlighted the techno-
& testing, coaching, etc. logical improvement to conduct research in swimming.
This special issue of Journal of Sport Science and For instance, Magalhaes et al. proposed a software for
Medicine attempted to enlarge the research spectrum automatic tracking in underwater motion analysis, while
beyond competitive swimming and the traditional do- Sato and Hino described computational fluid dynamics
mains presented previously in order to promote more (CFD) analysis of hydrodynamic force acting on a swim-
broadly ‘aquatic activities’. Therefore this special issue mer’s hand. Finally, Rossi et al. reported as Dual-energy
promotes research concerning Water Polo (see manu- X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has the potential for direct
scripts of Uljevic et al., Meckel et al.), Synchronised measurement of body segmental inertial parameter.
Swimming (see manuscript of Mandic et al.), swimming
start (Beretic et al., Garcia-Hermoso et al.) and turn Ludovic Seifert 1 and Tiago M. Barbosa 2,3
(Veiga et al.). Special Issue Editors
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This special issue was also the opportunity to University of Rouen, Faculty of Sport Sciences CETAPS
bridge the gap between young and elite swimmers by Lab., Boulevard Siegfried, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan
reporting both longitudinal researches and studies regard- Cedex, France
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ing young swimmers (see manuscripts of Costa et al., National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological
Silva et al., Mezzaroba et al., Strzala et al.), which are University, Singapore
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very useful for talent detection and training, and studies Research Centre in Sports, Health and Human Develop-
about taper and overload in elite swimmers (see manu- ment, Vila Real, Portugal
script of Hellard et al.).

Published (online): 01 December 2013

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