Abstract

For an athlete to achieve peak performance, a balance between rest and training must be fine-tuned to promote the desired performance. This creates an important correlation between swimming and fatigue because the slightest imbalance can cause an athlete to touch one-hundredth of a second behind another. A group of nineteen division II collegiate swimmers were tested for resting blood pressure, resting heart rate, resting blood lactate levels, and two different chronic fatigue syndrome self-assessments (Fatigue Severity Scale and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Biometric data showed no correlation to muscular fatigue as assessed by an overhead squat analysis or muscular endurance assessments. However, both self-reported assessments used showed a strong correlation (p < 0.05) in measured fatigue indicators in collegiate swimmers. Both self-reported assessments showed a strong statistical correlation that these assessments can be used for quick assessment of fatigue in competitive swimmers.