The Relationship Between the Upper-Body Strength Characteristics with Velocity and Power Parameters During the Bench Throw Movement: Is Sport Branch An Important Factor ?

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the relationship between the upper-body strength characteristic withvelocity and power parameters during the bench throw exercise shows a significant difference according to sports branches. Inaccordance with this purpose; a total of 52 athletes (age: 22,8±3,61 years; height: 183,3±10,8 cm; weight: 80,1±13,4 kg) including13 volleyball players (age: 20,3±1,25 years; height: 194,7±7,51 cm; weight: 87,8±7,22 kg) and 13 handball players (age: 25,4±3,86years; height: 187,5±8,33 cm; weight: 90,9±14,8 kg) competed in Turkey 1. League together with 13 national martial players (age:25,0±3,24 years; height: 175,1±6,91 cm; weight: 70,0±7,70 kg) and 13 arm wrestling players (age: 20,6±1,93 years; height:175,7±5,39 cm; weight: 71,9±7,92 kg) participated as voluntarily. To determine the velocity and power parameters, a benchthrow (BT) movement was performed using an external load of 30 % of the participants' body weight and mean propulsivevelocity (MPV), peak velocity (PV), mean propulsive power (MPP) and peak power (PP) by the help of an isoinertial velocitytransducer (T-Force dynamic measurement system). Shapiro-Wilk normality test, descriptive statistics and Spearmancorrelation analysis methods were used to evaluate the data. According to the results of the analysis, it was found that therewas a statistically significant relationship between the upper-body strenght characteristics with together velocity and powerparameters during the BT movement and this relationship shows a statistically significant difference compared to the sportsbranches. While both the volleyball players and the handball players have a high and positive relationship between the upperbody strength characteristics with together velocity and power values during the BT movement (p<0.05); it was found thatmartial players have only a significant relationship with PV and MPP values. On the other hand, it was determined that armwrestling players don’t have any statistically significant relationship between both strength and velocity values andcharacteristic of upper-body strength (p>0.05). As a results, it can be asserted that sports branch is an important factor for therelationship between the upper-body strength characteristics with together velocity and power parameters during the benchthrow movement.