Middle-Aged Male Competitive Swimmers. Background and Body Structure Characteristics.

摘要

Forty-two male swim competitors, between the ages of 40 and 59 years, took part in a questionnaire and somatotype measurement study during the 1972 U.S. Masters long-course national champions. Nearly 70 percent of all male competitors in this age range participated in the study. The men proved to be extremely homogeneous in terms of race, education, occupation, and past swimming experience. Somatotype data gathered on the men did not differentiate swimmers in their 70's from swimmers in their 50's, nor did somatotype differentiate champions from non-champions. A comparison was made in body structure characteristics for the sub-group of U.S. Masters champions with two previously studied groups of champion swimmers when these other swimmers were in their twenties. (Author)