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| Título: | Stability of elite Freestyle performance from childhood to adulthood. |
| Autores: | Costa, Mário
Marinho, Daniel
Bragada, José
Silva, António
Barbosa, Tiago |
| Data: | 2011 |
| Editora: | Taylor and Francis |
| Citação: | COSTA MJ, MARINHO DA, BRAGADA JA, SILVA AJ, BARBOSA TM (2011) Stability of elite Freestyle performance from childhood to adulthood. Journal of Sports Sciences, 29(11): 1183-1189. |
| Resumo: | Stability of athletic performance is important for practitioners and coaches, since it allows the selection of appropriate training methods and prediction of ages for best results. We performed a longitudinal study of 1694 season-best performances of 242 elite-standard swimmers throughout their careers, from 12 to 18 years of age. Mean stability (descriptive statistics and one-way repeated-measures ANOVA, followed by a Bonferroni post-hoc test) and normative stability (Cohen's kappa tracking index and the Pearson correlation coefficient) were determined for seven consecutive seasons. Performance improvements in all events were observed (14.36-18.97%). Bonferroni post-hoc tests verified changes in almost all events assessed. Cohen's kappa demonstrated low stability (0.17-0.27) in relative performance. Pearson correlations only became high from 15 to 16 years in the 50-m and 100-m events, and from 16 to 17 years in the 200-m, 400-m, and 1500-m events. Our results show that: (a) swimmers should display a substantial improvement (14-19%) to become elite standard as adults, such as at 18 years; (b) 16 is the age at which the ability to predict adult performance increases markedly. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10314/3279 |
| Aparece nas Colecções: | Artigos em Revista Internacional (ESECD)
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