Treinamento de força fora da água para nadadores velocistas

Abstract

The practice of bodybuilding at gym has grown in recent years. This growth is due to many different reasons such as rehabilitation, the desire to improve the quality of life and physical condition, among others. The practice of bodybuilding is also common in the swimming field. Both amateur and professional swimmers want to practice bodybuilding in order to increase their sports performance. A question arises in this context: is the increasing of dry-land strenght levels transferred to sport perfomance in the water for sprinters swimmers? It is remarkable the lack of consensus in the scientific literature about the influence of off water strenght training in the water performance, therefore justifying the need of this research. In the attempt of clarifying this controversy the methodology used in this paperwork was exploratory research with the cientific method of bibliographic review, by analysing scientific articles e books about the subject studied. With the acomplishment of this work it was possible to notice that many different aspects are interconnected in the sport training. the bodybuilding practice can be used in the swimmers traininig if all those factors, such as methodology used, athlete's training stage, athlete's objectives and training level in and off water are taken into account. The bodybuilding practice has to be consistent with each periodized training as well as each athlete's particularities.