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  • Title: The effect of high- and low-intensity warm-up on the physiological responses to a standardized swim and tethered swimming performance.
    Author: Mitchell JB, Huston JS.
    Journal: J Sports Sci; 1993 Apr; 11(2):159-65. PubMed ID: 8497018.
    Abstract:
    This investigation was conducted to determine the effect of high- and low-intensity warm-ups on physiological responses, lactate accumulation, and high-intensity freestyle and tethered swimming performance. Ten male collegiate swimmers were tested for maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) followed by two series of three warm-up protocols performed in a randomized order at least 2 days apart. The warm-up protocols were: (1) no warm-up (NWU), (2) a 366-m swim at 70% VO2 max (LWU) and (3) four 46-m swims at 1-min intervals at a speed corresponding to 110% VO2 max (HWU). Five minutes after each warm-up in the first series, the swimmers swam a 183-m standardized freestyle swim at a velocity corresponding to 110% VO2 max, and 5 min after each warm-up in the second series the swimmers completed a tethered swim to exhaustion with a weight attached to the tether to elicit fatigue at about 2 min. Three minutes after each warm-up and 3 min after each standardized and tethered swim, a finger-prick blood sample for lactate measurement was obtained. Heart rate and VO2 were also measured during the warm-up and the standardized and tethered swims. The performance times in the tethered swim were not significantly different between the three conditions (116.8 +/- 46.8, 137 +/- 53.3 and 122.94 +/- 37.2 s for the NWU, LWU and HWU, respectively).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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