Verbal Encouragement in Swimming

University of Genoa (UniGe)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: with verbal encouragement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05573971

VES-DINOGMI-21

Details and patient eligibility

About

Verbal encouragement (VE) is used to enhance the performance in several sports, even though no studies have been conducted in swimmers and no effects have been reported in elite athletes by some Authors. Besides influencing motor performance, VE is also known to enhance the physical load, thus increasing the probability of developing fatigue. The aim of this research was to study VE in swimmers by evaluating both chronometric performance and muscle fatigue (using sEMG).

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• at least 1 year of experience in training aimed at regional and international competitions
• a score ≥ 200 points on the personal best in the 200m freestyle, in accordance with the international point score (IPS) (http://www. swimnews.com/ipspoints)
• being healthy

Exclusion criteria

• having a disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

with verbal encouragement

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: with verbal encouragement

without verbal encouragement

No Intervention group