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ISBS2011

 

 

Swimming Biophysics Applied Session @ ISBS 2011

(Biomechanical implications on energy processing)

Aim

The aim of the Swimming Applied Session is to make an overview of the most updated concepts and methodologies to assess swimming efficiency - and related parameters - that can help researchers and coaches to improve swimming performance. The presenters will introduce some concepts, controversial issues, demonstrations and techniques which will be the focus for discussion among the participants.

The theoretical foundations

The enhancement of swimming competitive ability should be understood under a biophysical point of view, which means relating both biomechanical and energetic constrains and its influence in performance. This topic introduces an interesting and clear perspective about coaching and sport analysis: the physiologic or the biomechanical knowledge and approaches, once isolated, are not sufficient for fulfilling sports excellence. It is needed an integrated approach, including also other scientific domains that, somehow, influences the energy release and its most appropriate use. This concept implies that the modern coach and scientist need to have full understanding about the maximization of the energetic input to the work-producing system - the swimmer - and about the maximization of the capacity (the total amount of energy available to generate work) and efficiency to use that energy to generate propulsive power in order to compensate and overcome drag and other biomechanical constrains.

Programme

30 June 2011

Room - 15h30 (Chairman Prof. Ricardo Fernandes)

1st Oral Presentation (20')

Prof. Ross Sanders: From technical foundations to increased efficiency in swimming

2nd Oral Presentation (20')

Prof. Paola Zamparo: Assessing gross efficiency and propulsive efficiency in swimming

3rd Oral Presentation (20')

Prof. Raul Arellano: Transferring applied hydrodynamics to technical training

4th Oral Presentation (20')

Prof. Bruce Mason: Evaluation and feedback in swimming: historical overview

Debate (10')

Swimming-pool - 17h30 (Chairman Prof. Francisco Alves)

1st Demonstration (20')

Prof. Huub Toussaint: MAD system for the assessment of active drag and propulsive efficiency

2nd Demonstration (20')

Profs. Carlo Baldari, Laura Guidetti & Marco Meucci: Measuring energy expenditure in swimming to assess gross mechanical efficiency

3rd Demonstration (20')

Prof. Raul Arellano & Rocío Domínguez-Castells: Assessing muscular and swimming power

4th Demonstration (20')

Profs. J. Paulo Vilas-Boas, Leandro Machado, Susana Soares, Ricardo Fernandes, Antônio B. Lima & Miguel Velhote Correia: Swimming biophysical relevant parameters extracted from velocimetry and accelerometry

Presenters Biographies

Ross Sanders is Chair of Sport Science, Institute of Sport, Physical Education, and Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh (from 2000). He has been strongly involved with the ISBS as a member of the Board of Directors, President from 1999-2001, and VP Research and Projects from 2006-2010. He was the ISBS Dyson lecturer in 2007. Ross completed his PhD through the University of Queensland (1991) following employment as a teacher of Physical Education (1977-1984). His research applies the scientific disciplines of biomechanics and motor control with particular emphasis on enhancing performance in aquatic sports.  Ross has a particular interest in rhythms used in swimming and their use in maximising economy. He is the founder of a website www.coachesinfo.com designed to inform and educate coaches. In 2008 the site became the official sports science delivery site for FINA.

Paola Zamparo is professor of biomechanics at the Faculty of Sport Sciences of the University of Verona (Italy). She started her swimming studies under the supervision of Prof. di Prampero (Udine, Italy) and Prof. Pendergast (Buffalo, US); she has got her PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) discussing a Thesis about the 'Optimization and transmission efficiency in human locomotion'. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the metabolic and mechanical factors that influence swimming performance (i. e. the efficiency-ies of aquatic locomotion).

Raúl Arellano is Associate Professor of Swimming Training and Biomechanics and coordinator of the Master Course on Physical Activity and Sports Research in the University of Granada. Biomechanist responsible for the Spanish Swimming National Team until London 2012. He performed competition analysis in two Olympic Games, two world Championships, one European Age Group Championships and 12 Spanish Nationals Open. His main topics of research were starts analysis, underwater undulatory swimming, flow visualization, intra-cycle velocity, drills analysis and muscular power evaluation related to swimming performance. He developed the swimming biomechanics laboratory at the Altitude Training Center of Sierra Nevada (Spain), and a new aquatic facility is being built in his Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport, including top technology applied to swimming testing and teaching.

Bruce Mason is the Head of Department Aquatics Testing Training and Research Unit of the Australian Institute of Sport (Canberra). He got his PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Oregon (1980). Beside the development of analysis equipment used to service elite Australian swimmers, his major research area now is in active drag. Bruce headed up the Biomechanics Department at Australian Institute of Sport from 1982-2006, being his major emphasis providing swimming biomechanical support to its Swimming squad, as well as to the Australian national swim (1990-2004). Bruce was responsible for conducting competition swimming analysis at a number of major FINA Swimming Championships.  As recognition of his work in the Biomechanics of Swimming, Bruce was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (2002) and an Australian Sports Medal (2000) together with the major award of the ISBS in Hong Kong (2000). In 2006, Bruce took over the reins of the new Aquatics Testing, Training and Research Unit at the Australian Institute of Sport which saw the construction of a 50m aquatics technological laboratory.

Huub Toussaint is chief scientific officer of the InnoSport.NL Fieldlab swimming in Eindhoven the Netherlands. Research is used to optimize swimming performance of top-swimmers. Huub is associated professor of Biomechanics at Human Movement Science VU-university Amsterdam, Research Professor at Faculty of Physical Education at the University of Professional Education in Amsterdam and he is invited professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences at the University of Rouen.

Carlo Baldari had his PhD in 'Movement Sciences' U.T.A.D. Portugal. Associate Professor of Methods and Didactics of Sport Activities: Individual Sports at University of Rome 'Foro Italico' (from 2002-2011). Invited lecturer at UTAD University (Vila Real-Portugal), at FUNORTE University (Montes Claros-Brasil), at Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) Brasil, at Federal University of Paraná (Curitiba-Brasil). His main research topics: methods of standardization of exercise intensity, metabolic responses to exercise, metabolic evaluation in swimming. Author of more than fifty original articles on IF journals; reviewer of nine international journals on medicine and sport research. Member of Italian 'College of Professors of Methods and Didactics of Sport Activities' and of Fellow of 'American College of Sports Medicine'.

J. Paulo Vilas-Boas is a full professor of Biomechanics and Swimming Science at the University of Porto, Faculty of Sport, and a member of the Steering Group Swimming of the World Commission for Science in Sport (UNESCO). He devoted his live to swimming science and coaching (he is a former Olympic swimming coach). Vilas-Boas was three times elected amongst his peers as The Portuguese Swimming Coach of the Year. He has several research papers published, presented several times as invited speaker in international events, and chaired BMS2006 and ISBS2011 congresses.

 

Leandro Machado is Auxiliary Professor at the Biomechanics group of the Faculty of Sports of the Porto University. His main interest is on modeling and data processing, from gait and running to swimming, with a particular focus on the gliding phases after start and turns.

Susana Soares is Auxiliary Professor of the Swimming Department of the University of Porto, Faculty of Sport. She has a PhD on Swimming Biophysics and works on anaerobic performance evaluation in swimming. Swimming didactics and non-competitive aquatic activities are also of her interest.

Susana Soares

Ricardo Fernandes is the Head of the Swimming Department of the University of Porto, Faculty of Sport. He has a PhD on Swimming Biophysics and works on the swimming characterization specially centered on the availability and use of energy and its relationship with biomechanical variables. Planning and periodization, and training control and evaluation of athletes in cyclic sports, are also of his interest. He was a swimming coach from 1994-2008 and directed courses of Swimming Coaches Education (level 1 and 2 of the Portuguese Swimming Federation). He is member of the review board of scientific journals in the Sport Sciences area and publishes regularly studies in the above-referred thematic.

Antonio Barroso Lima Is graduated in Physical Education by the Faculdade de Educação Física de Santo André – São Paulo (1973) and has a PhD in Sport Sciences by the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto (2006).
He is an Associate Professor of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC - Brazil) and is the Director of the Physical Education and Sports Institute of the same University (IEFES/UFC).
He is author of the book “The art of saving lives”, and has a background in the field of Physical Education, with emphasis on: Swimming; urgent aids in physical education, sports and leisure; swimming biomechanics; lifesaving

Miguel Velhote Correia has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Porto, College of Engineering (FEUP). He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP since 2002, and a researcher in the Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems unit at the Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto. His main research interests are in Computational Vision, Visual Perception and Human Motion Analysis, and include biomedical instrumentation and sensor data integration for the analysis of human movement, perception, action and performance. He is co-founder and technical advisor of Tomorrow Options - Microelectronics S.A, an electronic devices company.

 

 

This Applied Session is part of the project PTDC/DES/101224/2008

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