Leg exercises for choreographic preparation in artistic swimming for sports initiation

Abstract

The sports preparation of the Artistic Swimming at present is aimed at perfecting the specificities of performance in this sport. In this context, a task to be solved immediately is related to the difficulty of the coaches to face the choreographic preparation, which constitutes a fundamental part of the training process. For this reason, the objective of this research was to select exercises that, due to their characteristics, allow coaches to choreographically prepare their athletes, taking into account their feasibility to conceive execution routines in the sports initiation stage. Different methods were used such as document review, analysis and synthesis, interviews and techniques such as the methodological workshop. The investigative process allowed to establish as part of the choreographic preparation, a proposal of leg exercises to be carried out in the Dance Barre, which could improve the execution in this segment of the body during the performance of the routines. The proposal was valued as very suitable for its purposes by specialists, so it means a useful tool to minimize a problem for coaches, in order to achieve successful presentations of their athletes in the competition.