2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A development of new methodology for measuring the mechanical power during swimming
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15K12641
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Sports science
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
NARITA Kenzo 筑波大学, 人間総合科学研究博士後期課程科体育科学専攻
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 水泳 / 自己推進時抵抗 / 受動抵抗 / 流体力学 / パワー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We can get very useful information for coaching and exercise prescription, if it becomes capable to measure the mechanical power during swimming precisely. However, there is no established methodology to measure the mechanical power during swimming, so we tried to develop a new methodology during the front crawl.
As results, we have developed a new methodology to measure the active drag which was a fundamental value to calculate the the mechanical power. We confirmed high reliability of the new method. It revealed that the active drag was not proportional to the square of the velocity but the cube of the velocity.
We hope that this methodology will apply for other strokes, e.g. breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly.
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| Free Research Field |
スポーツ科学，バイオメカニクス
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