Treinamento em natação: uma análise da performance em cadetes do Curso de Formação de Oficiais da ABMJM

Abstract

Swimming is present in the professional performance of firefighters. Aquatic rescue is an area of action that should not be overlooked, as professionals often need to assist in the search and rescue of vessels, people, goods, among others, that are in aquatic hazards. Within this context, the professional must be prepared with both his psychological and physical characteristics to perform such activities, especially when the situation is emergency and high risk. A trained professional must have a spirit of leadership, sociability, self-confidence and know how to exercise his authority. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the importance the systematic training in yhe aquatic environment in the preparation of the Military Firefighters Academy Josué Montello cadet. For this, a research was carried out at the Military Firefighters Academy Josué Montello. For the study, 25 cadets were evaluated, 23 of whom were men and 2 women. The pool used was 25 m. The training was performed 3 times a week for three months, the duration was 45 min per class, all styles of swimming were used (butterfly, back, chest and crawl). The cadets received instructions on breathing and correct forms both in the practice of the sport and its use for aquatic rescue. In the test, only freestyle was evaluated, where we marked the students' first and last class with a stopwatch to compare their progress. Through these data, we can confirm that 100% of the participants showed improvements in their times. Graph 1 shows the average times, before and after training in a 25 m pool. It was possible to compare that in the beginning the average time was 43”67, after three months, the average time dropped to 39”80, pointing to the importance of continuous training of cadets to improve performance. As a conclusion, it was possible to verify that swimming proved to be an essential sport for several activities of the firefighter, being used in calls such as water rescue and rescue of drowned body, and the professional must be able to perform these activities. In addition, swimming emerges as an important tool to maintain the health and well-being of the professional