| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 運動科學研究所碩士在職專班 === 103 === Adolescence is a crucial stage of physical and mental development for athletes. Therefore, investigating core-muscle strength training can assist athletes in maximizing their athletic potential. This study aimed to explore the influence of a complete core-muscle training cycle on adolescent swimmers’ trunk-control ability and athletic performance to determine the optimal training method for adolescents. The results can serve as a coaching reference for basic training of future swimmers. We recruited 26 swimmers (10 senior high and 16 junior high school students) from the swimming team of Kaohsiung Municipal Rueisiang High School to participate in the experiment. The participants were divided into two groups (i.e., traditional training and core-muscle training groups, each consisting of 13 participants) according to their average pretest results. All the participants were required to attend 10 training sessions every week for 14 weeks, each session lasting 30 min. Prokin was used to test the participants’ trunk-control ability as well as record their test scores before and after the experiment. Subsequently, two-way analysis of variance with significance level set at p < .05 was performed to analyze the influence of core-muscle training on swimmers’ trunk-control ability and athletic performance before and after the test.
The long-, medium-, and short-distance swimming performance of the core-muscle and traditional training groups significantly improved. For the core-muscle training group, the short-, medium-, and long-distance swimming workouts respectively presented pretest scores of 71.54 ± 5.76 s, 326.31 ± 31.79 s and posttest scores of 61.31 ± 6.32 s, 280.69 ± 25.93 s, and 1147.77 ± 107.99 s. For the traditional training group, the short-, medium-, and long-distance swimming workouts respectively presented pretest scores of 71.84 ± 4.96 s, 326.15 ± 26.46 s, and 1293.85 ± 102.71 s and posttest scores of 64.55 ± 5.14 s, 297.69 ± 22.05 s, and 1228.85 ± 105.32 s (p < .05). The magnitude of improvement observed among the core-muscle training group in short-, medium-, and long-distance swimming workouts was significantly greater than that of the traditional training group (p < .002).
This study determined that core-muscle training enhances adolescent swimmers’ athletic performance more than traditional training does. The performance of the core-muscle training group improved more significantly than that of the traditional training group. However, the trunk-control ability of the two groups did not vary. Further investigation is required to determine whether no improvement in this regard is because the swimmers had already possessed strong trunk-control ability before this study was conducted. Nevertheless, core-muscle training enhances swimmers’ athletic performance. Future studies may explore other factors that influence core-muscle performance.
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