In the crawl stroke, the body is propelled through the water by the pulling motion of the arms and the kicking motion of the legs. Until now, the propelling forces have been recorded during tethered swimming by several researchers. Those experimental results show periodical variation in the propulsive force during swimming the crawl stroke. This variation in the force must result in either acceleration or deceleration of the swimmer. The present study is intended to analyze the swimming speed within a single cycle of the crawl stroke.
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