Variation vs. specialization: the dose-time-effect of technical and physiological variety in the development of elite swimmers
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Dennis-Peter Born; Jenny Lorentzen; Glenn Björklund; Thomas Stöggl; Michael Romann
- Source
- BMC Research Notes, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2024)
- Subject
- Competitive swimming
Deliberate practice
Diversification
Long-term athlete development
Sampling
Talent
Medicine
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Science (General)
Q1-390
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1756-0500
Abstract Objective It is heavily discussed whether larger variety or specialization benefit elite performance at peak age. Therefore, this study aimed to determine technical (number of different swimming strokes) and physiological (number of different race distances) variety required to become an international-class swimmer (> 750 swimming points) based on 1′522′803 race results. Results Correlation analyses showed lower technical variety in higher ranked swimmers (P