Impact Of Flexibility On The Performance Of The Swimming Freestyle With Students Of Faculty Sport And Physical Education

In a sample of 35 students the second year in Bologna, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Sarajevo, the 6 variables was applied to assess flexibility (predictor system) and 1 variable for the speed of swimming front crawl technique (criterion variable). The goal was to determine the impact of flexibility on the rate of crawl swimming technique at 50 m swimming lessons at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in Bologna, the University of Sarajevo. To determine the impact of flexibility on the swimming speed it was used regression analysis. Based on the results we can conclude that the association of predictors with the criterion variable was R = .63, and it was explained 40% of common variance with the criterion. Such a correlation is significant at the .020 level. By analyzing the impact of individual variables of flexibility, it can be seen that the largest and statistically significant impact on the criterion variable, have the variables: MFRFP - Retofleksija hand - extensio, elevatio posterior - no rotation upper arms (.001), MFLISK - flex (.034), MFLRIS -Inversion-rotatie interna-supinatio (.037). From the analysis turned out that retofleksija hand - extensio, elevatio posterior - no rotation of upper arms, flex and inversion-internal-rotatie supinatio had influence. After all that we said we can conclude that without the flexibility of the entire body it can not be performed a proper front crawl technique, and therefore neither the maximum speed swimming freestyle technique with students of the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Sarajevo.