Comparison of Some Parameters During Bench Throw Movement and Upper-Body Strength Characteristics in Turkish National Boxers and Kickboxers

The purpose of this study was to compare some parameters during loaded squat jump movement and upper-body strength characteristics in Turkish national boxers and kickboxers. In accordance with this purpose, 7 boxers (age: 25,5±2,57 years; boy: 174,2±4,38 cm; weight: 69,5±5,53 kg) and 6 kickboxers (age: 24,3±4,03 years; height: 176,1±9,45 cm; weight: 70,5±10,25 kg) who had ranks in competitions at Europe and World Championships, totally 13 athletes (age: 25,0±3,24 years; height: 175,1±6,91 cm; weight: 70,0±7,70 kg), participated voluntarily in this study. In order to obtain upper-body strength characteristic of participants, one repetition maximal (1RM) in bench press (BP) movement and hand-grip strength tests were applied.In order to determine power and velocity parameters, bench throw (BT) movement was applied by using an external load that corresponds to 30% of body weights of the participants by utilizing an isoinertial velocity transducer (T-Force dynamic measurement system) and values of mean propulsive velocity (MPV), peak velocity (PV), mean propulsive power (MPP) and peak power (PP) were obtained. In the assessment of data, shapiro-wilk normality test, independent sample t-test, pearson correlation analysis and descriptive statistics were used. According to analysis results, there are no statistically significant differences between velocity and power values during BT movement and upper-body strength characteristics of Turkish national boxers and kickboxers (p>0.05). As a results, the reason that there are no significant differences bertween both groups; it can be suggested that both groups consist of high-level athletes who participated in Europe and Word championships and their training systems and methods are similar to eachother