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Combined lower- and upper-limb post-activation performance enhancement does not clearly improve 50 m front crawl performance in national-level swimmers

Scientific Reports

Abstract

Post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE) has been proposed as an acute strategy to improve sprint-swimming readiness, but the effects of combined lower- and upper-limb conditioning remain unclear.

The paper

Arkadiusz Stanula, Wojciech Sadowski, Wojciech Rejdych,
Show 3 more authorsMarek Strzała, Katja Weiss, Thomas Johannes Rosemann,
Beat Knechtle

Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego im. Jerzego Kukuczki w Katowicach · University of Zurich

Scientific Reports · 3 Oct 2026 · CC BY

doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-74489-1