During four last decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to the presupposed relationship between body shape and dimensions, hydrodynamic resistance related to drag in active swimmers and anthropometric variables. The development of a new indirect method to determine active drag (JIVIAD) warranted a reevaluation of this relationship, which was the aim of present work. 20 experienced female swimmers with different body shapes aged between 13 and
19 and in mass between 42 and 68 kg volunteered in this study.
They were requested to swim a 10-meter distance as fast as they could and three to five trials with enough rest in between. They were also instructed to glide at the end of the 10-meter swim by whistling until still position. The time of the 10-meter swim and the glide distance were measured with reasonable precision
(10-2 Sec. and 10-2 m respectively). The variables were mass, weight, upper limit length, arm length, forearm length, head circumference, arm circumference and biacromial distance. Very h4çh and significant correlations were found between active drag and ant anthropometric varibales. In addition to a high degree of correlation between maximal body cross - section and active drag, significant correlations were also found between several other anthropometric vaiables and drag. Except for the head circumference and biacromial distance, the other variables had high and significant correlations with drag force. The drag force for swimmers at national team ranged from 26 to 36 N, while for other well-experienced swimmers from 16 to 32 N. The results agreed well with the resutls by other researchers using MAD system.
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