The Effects of Unit Exercises on the Hand Grip Strength of Arm Wrestlers

Abstract

The aim of this research is to evaluate the change in the hand grip strength of the male arm wrestlers before and after a unit of exercise. The participants of the research consist of sportsmen (n=16) of Fırat University arm wrestling team in 18-25 age group.Within the scope of the research, all of the tests and measurements (age, length, body weight, sports age, hand grip strength) were carried out on the experimental group before they started training and the same tests were repeated just after the exercises. A unit of exercise program consisted of warm up, cool down, and 5 sets of weight lifting with 12 repetitions and intensity of 70% that were in that day's plan and program applied by the trainer.While descriptive statistics were adopted in the statistical analysis, to identify the significance level between the hand grip strength before and after the exercise paired sample t-test analysis was used. The significance level was shown as α = 0.05 in the analyses. While the right hand grip strength of the sportsmen (n=16) was statistically significant at 51.1062 ± 1.69709 before and 49.0437 ± 1.71770 (p=0.000) after the exercise, the left hand grip strength was statistically significant at 46.9000 ± 1.16179 before and 45.8063 ± 1.30078 (p=0.000) after the exercise.In conclusion, it was observed that there is a statistically significant negative decline in the hand grip strength of the arm wrestling sportsmen after a unit of exercise and it can be said that it is because of the exhaustion expected after the exercise.

The effect of bridge exercises on the postural deviations and spinal cervical vertebrae deformities among wrestlers

“…Reliance on the head, hands, and feet, and the repetition of these exercises may expose this dangerous area of the body to injury or deformities of the cervical vertebrae, and accordingly, the current study seeks to identify the effect of these exercises on the bridge skill on deviations in the body and deformations of the cervical vertebrae of the spine among wrestlers (Ylinen et al, 2003). There have been numerous studies and research to identify the factors that lead to injury during training or competition (Demirel et al, 2018), and within the limits of the researchers' knowledge, none of the studies addressed the identification of changes in the deviations of the physique and deformations of the cervical vertebrae from the impact of these exercises (Ferreira et al, 2010), and for this, the idea of the study was established so that the deviations of the stature are measured and determined or deformations that may occur to the cervical vertebrae of wrestlers from the impact of bridge exercises, and that is using the Posture Pro 8 technology (Yonca et al, 2017), it is one of the hightech devices in determining the prediction of future abnormalities that may occur as a result of practices and training that lead to complications.…”