The object of study of the Swimming Research Center Amsterdam is (of course) competitive swimming!
What aspects determine performance in swimming?
How does the swimmer adapt to training?
How is propulsion generated?
Can drag be influenced by technique?
What is the optimal training program?
All these questions will be interesting for swimmers and coaches who like to excel in competition. On this site you will find some of the answers we found to those questions. Enjoy exploring!
From a different perspective these questions are also interesting for the human movement scientist who wants to understand the constraints, control and execution of human movement.
Swimming is often studied from a disciplinary perspective (e.g. biomechanics or exercise physiology). We believe that for a better understanding of swimming performance, we should use a multi-disciplinary approach. For example, swimming technique is strongly related to both the mechanical and the metabolic load swimming at a certain speed elicits. Rather than looking at any of these aspects separately, the major mission of the Swimming Research Center Amsterdam is to reveal the relationships between metabolic, morphological, mechanical and coordinative aspects of swimming.
Impression of visit to Australian Institute of Sport
Published Paper (in MSSE March 2009) about coordination in front crawl swimming
and another one....
Published in MSSE April 2009 about drafting in triathlon swimming
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Published in Naturwissenschaft April 2009 about risk of drowning during open water swims when water is stratified in warm and cold layers
experiments in Lille with Morgan Alberty, Michel Sidney, François Potdevin, Ludovic Seifert and Patrick Pelayo
