The Four Swimming Strokes: Backstroke Costs About 15 Percent More Energy per Metre Than Front Crawl at the Same Speed - and Competitive Backstroke Is Paced Differently at Every Distance
3 days ago
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Four strokes share the pool: front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. Swimmers learn them as techniques; coaches prescribing swimming for fitness need to know what each costs and what decides how fast it goes. The freestyle-versus-backstroke question has been measured directly in the same swimmers, and the determinants of backstroke performance have now been pooled across 35 studies.
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