Post-activation performance enhancement does not occur following a large hand-paddles and parachute-resisted warm-up routine in collegiate swimmers

• Main Authors: Santiago Soares Bufalo (Author), Gabriel Fontanetti (Author), Renan Vieira Barreto (Author), Gabriel Rocha Benazzi (Author), Rubens Correa Junior (Author), Victor Marangoni (Author), Natália de Menezes Bassan (Author), Benedito Sérgio Denadai (Author), Camila Coelho Greco (Author), João Paulo Vilas-Boas (Author), Leonardo Coelho Rabello de Lima (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Our aim was to investigate if using a warm-up routine that included parachute-resisted sprints with large hand-paddles improves 50 m freestyle performance in trained collegiate swimmers. Twelve swimmers (23.9 ± 2.2 years, 179 ± 7 cm, 77.1 ± 10.6 kg) participated in the study and completed two 50-m f...