Effects of a lateral inspiration training program on butterfly stroke parameters
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The purpose of this investigation was to assess the effects of a lateral inspiration-training program in the
stroke cycle parameters on Butterfly.
Eleven university students, 9 males and 2 females, volunteered to participate in this study (mean age 20.0±1.0
years, 175.1±7.9cm of height and 71.278±10.569Kg of weight). These subjects followed 9 sessions of 100 minutes
each, with the objective of learning and exercising the lateral inspiration on Butterfly stroke. Neither of them
had ever made lateral inspiration on Butterfly. The evaluation occurred in at two points in time: one before
(pre-test) and another after (post-test) the application of the training program. At each point in time, all subjects
made two courses of 20 meters Butterfly, one using lateral inspiration and another adopting frontal inspiration,
with a start in the water. Between the 5th meter and the 19th meter (i.e. within 14 meters) an observer recorded
the time spent and the number of stroke cycles made. Therefore, the mean velocity displacement (V = 14.time–
1), the mean stroke frequency (SF = cycles.time–1) and the mean stroke length (SL = 14.cycles–1) according to
Pelayo et al. (1997) procedures were analysed, as well as the stroke index (SI = V.SL) as it was proposed by
Costill et al. (1985) and Tourny (1992). To determine the significance of the mean differences for each stroking
parameter, ANOVA with repeated measures (p£0.05) was used.
Table 1 presents the mean values and standard deviations of the stroke cycle parameters analysed using the
two inspiration techniques on pre-test and post-test. Comparing the frontal inspiration between pre-test and
post-test, the V [F(1; 10)=71.904, p<0.0001] and the SI [F(1; 10)=10.257, p=0.0094] were significantly higher in
post-test than in pre-test. Comparing the lateral inspiration between the two moments, the V [F(1; 10)=50.800,
p<0.0001], the SL [F(1; 10)=16.622, p=0.0022] and the SI [F(1; 10)=23.161, p=0.0007] were also significantly
higher in post-test than in pre-test. On the other hand, comparing the two inspiration techniques, it was
possible to assert that, in pre-test the mean values were significantly higher using frontal inspiration than the
lateral inspiration on V [F(1;10)=24.324, p=0.0006], on the SL [F(1; 10)=6.834, p=0.0259] and on the SI [F(1;
10)=15.635, p=0.0027]. However, on post-test, only V presented a significant difference [F(1; 10)=9.294, p=0.0124].
V was significantly higher using frontal inspiration rather than lateral inspiration. SF [F(1; 10)=0.016, p=0.9027],
SL [F(1; 10)=1.165, p=0.3058] and SI [F(1; 10)=3.301, p=0.0993] did not present significant differences between
the two inspiration techniques.
