The relationship between tethered swimming, anaerobic critical velocity, dry-land strength, and swimming performance Ruiz Navarro, Jesús Juan Gay Párraga, Ana Cuenca Fernández, Francisco López Belmonte, Óscar Morales Ortiz, Esther López Contreras, Gracia Arellano Colomina, Raúl Kinematics sprint power assessment evaluation performance analysis This study aimed to 1) examine the associations between two swim- specific measures of anaerobic performance and dry-land strength- based variables; 2) study the association between the aforemen- tioned variables with swimming performance and its kinematics; 3) analyse sex-induced differences. Twenty-three regional-national swimmers performed five countermovement-jumps and pull-ups, 50-m front crawl, two 30-s tethered-swimming tests at 0 and 1.124 m·s−1 water flow speed. Moreover, 10, 15, 20, and 25-m maximal front crawl were performed to determine anaerobic critical velocity (AnCV). The AnCV was positively correlated with tethered swimming variables in both conditions and dry-land-based vari- ables in both sexes (p < 0.05). Tethered-swimming variables in both conditions were correlated with pull-ups’ average propulsive force in males (p < 0.05). 50-m swimming performance was posi- tively associated with AnCV, tethered-swimming variables, counter- movement-jump height, and pull-ups’ average propulsive force for both sexes (p < 0.05). Stroke rate (SR) was positively associated with AnCV in males and females (p < 0.05). Stroke length was correlated with tethered-swimming variables in males (p < 0.05). Except for SR, males presented higher values than females (p < 0.05). Depending on the conditions of their training environment, coaches might use the AnCV and tethered-swimming variables as interchangeable tools 2025-01-23T10:43:17Z 2025-01-23T10:43:17Z 2022-05-05 journal article Ruiz-Navarro, J. J., Gay, A., Cuenca-Fernández, F., López-Belmonte, Ó., Morales-Ortíz, E., López-Contreras, G., & Arellano, R. (2022). The relationship between tethered swimming, anaerobic critical velocity, dry-land strength, and swimming performance. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 22(3), 407-421. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/100126 10.1080/24748668.2022.2072561 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional