Training zones in sport performance of youth swimmers

Abstract

Sports performance is perfectly measurable by various internal and external indicators that allow effective control of physical loads. The quantification of performance indicators has a high priority depending on the sport and its determining directions, which in the swimmer case, the continuous stimulus has its maximum expression in resistance zone. In this regard, the initial research objective was to study the physical stimuli of resistance zone training at the initial stage of preparation program applied to a youth swimmers group. The research is quasi-experimental and descriptive. The study indicators were specified through heart rate as a direct indicator and blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) as an indirect indicator, applied in the first mesocycle of sports preparation program implemented in the target population. A high heart rate is evidenced for the study category, systolic blood pressure remained above established physiological parameters, and diastolic blood pressure behaved above normal values. A more active transit period is recommended at the training macrocycles end, which will allow a greater recovery of resistance zone in the first mesocycle implemented.