Estudo eletromiográfico dos músculos deltoide, peitoral maior e tríceps braquial de nadadores durante contra？？es bilaterais realizadas em exercício multiarticular com cargas variadas

the objective of this study was to compare the electrical activity of the deltoid (middle portion), pectoralis major (clavicular portion) and triceps (long head) muscles during bilateral contraction performed in a multi-articulated joint shoulder-press convergent machine with 40% and 80% maximum voluntary load (mvl) in 11 male swimmers (15 to 23 years, 70 ± 4 kg, 183 ± 6 cm and 10 ± 4 years time practice in sport), trained in resistance exercise. electromyographic signals (emg) were obtained by placing surface active differential electrodes (20x gain), composed of two parallel rectangular bars (emg system, brazil？). a data acquisition system (emg-alc) which provided numerical data in rms (root mean square) to analyze the signals composed by a reference electrode (ground) and a signal conditioning module (emg) with simultaneous acquisition of up to 8 differential channels (band-pass filter 5-20 hz), adjustable amplifier stage, allowing gains between 100 and 4960 times, channel input impedance 10gω in differential modules and cmrr of 93 db/60 hz was used. only the concentric phase (3 seconds duration) in each emg signal collected was recorded. after the tests (mann-whitney u test, friedman and wilcoxon) were applied, it was concluded that for prescription and periodization of the neuromuscular training, bilateral contractions performed in the shoulder-press apparatus are efficient at aiming muscular recruitment (80%> 40% ) of middle portion of the deltoid, pectoralis major (clavicular portion), and triceps brachii (long head) muscles, evidencing differences between dominant and non-dominant limbs only for the dominant brachial triceps in 80% of mvl in swimmers trained in resistance exercises.