The authors developed and tested an elite swimmers` performance physiology and fitness test technology driven by the active metabolism variability versus swimming speed analysis, with the functionality, strength, technical fitness and swimming technique test rates analyzed in a training cycle to improve the swimming speeds on a style- and distance-specific basis. We applied for the study a range of educational, physiological, hydrodynamic, biomechanical and ergometric test methods plus computer modeling and mathematical data processing toolkits. The new technology testing experiment was run in a 25m swimming pool in the winter training cycle (including the preparatory, aerobic-strength, special, eased training and competitive periods) prior to the 2014 World Swimming Championship in Doha, Qatar. In every of the above periods, special interval tests with the stepped flow rates in the hydrodynamic channel and open swimming pool tests were applied to rate the key performance parameters including the active energy metabolism rates; mechanical and propulsive movement efficiency ratios; and the active hydrodynamic front resistance rate. The new test technology gives the means for the coaching teams to rate efficiency of every individual training system in every training cycle and efficiently plan and manage the training process.
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