Swimming Training Load Control: na integrated approach

Abstract

Swimming is a very popular sport all over the world. Sport provides major cardiorespiratory improvements and can help people lead healthier lives. However, like most sports, swimming when performed at high intensity in the long run can lead the athlete to suffer injuries throughout the competitive period which can be harmful. Therefore, it is essential that coaches provide tools to maintain the health of athletes, both in physiological and psychological aspects, always controlling the training load of the athlete in training to improve performance. It is known that there are several approaches in the literature to monitor, quantify and regulate the training load, but there are none that cover the monitoring, quantification and regulation of the training load. Thus, the aim of this study is to review the literature, proposing an integrated approach to control the training load in swimming and the training load in swimming.