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    The effect of time constraints and running phases on combined event pistol shooting performance

    Dadswell, Clare, Payton, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8896-9753, Holmes, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0821-3580 and Burden, Adrian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1105-312X (2016) The effect of time constraints and running phases on combined event pistol shooting performance. Journal of Sports Sciences, 34 (11). pp. 1044-1050. ISSN 0264-0414

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    Abstract

    The combined event is a crucial aspect of the modern pentathlon competition, but little is known about how shooting performance changes through the event. This study aimed to identify (i) how performance-related variables changed within each shooting series and (ii) how performance-related variables changed between each shooting series. Seventeen modern pentathletes completed combined event trials. An optoelectronic shooting system recorded score and pistol movement, and force platforms recorded centre of pressure movement 1 s prior to every shot. Heart rate and blood lactate values were recorded throughout the event. Whilst heart rate and blood lactate significantly increased between series (P < 0.05), there were no accompanying changes in the time period that participants spent aiming at the target, shot score, pistol movement or centre of pressure movement (P > 0.05). Thus, combined event shooting performance following each running phase appears similar to shooting performance following only 20 m of running. This finding has potential implications for the way in which modern pentathletes train for combined event shooting, and highlights the need for modern pentathletes to establish new methods with which to enhance shooting accuracy.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 25 Apr 2016 12:20
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
    Additional Information: This is an Author Final Copy of a paper accepted for publication in Journal of Sports Sciences, published by and copyright Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
    Divisions: Faculties > Science and Engineering
    Subject terms: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Sport Sciences, Modern pentathlon, body sway, pistol movement, fatigue, MODERN PENTATHLON, EXERCISE, ACCURACY, BALANCE, FATIGUE, Humans, Lactic Acid, Task Performance and Analysis, Heart Rate, Running, Time Factors, Firearms, Adolescent, Female, Male, Athletic Performance, Postural Balance, Young Adult, Biomechanical Phenomena, Modern pentathlon, body sway, fatigue, pistol movement, Adolescent, Athletic Performance, Biomechanical Phenomena, Female, Firearms, Heart Rate, Humans, Lactic Acid, Male, Postural Balance, Running, Task Performance and Analysis, Time Factors, Young Adult, 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences, 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy, Sport Sciences
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/606944
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2015.1088163
    ISSN 0264-0414
    e-ISSN 1466-447X

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