THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MUSCULAR STRENGTH AND POWER WITH THROWING VELOCITY IN HIGH SCHOOL BOYS WATER POLO PLAYERS FOLLOWING A STRENGTH TRAINING BLOCK

Robert G. Lockie, Alexander M. Wakely, J. Jay Dawes, Erika Viramontes, Jacob D. Patron

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/FUPES230318008L
First page
099
Last page
110

Abstract


A high school strength and conditioning program should ideally improve fitness and develop sport-specific motor skills in athletes. This could be a targeted goal if research details relationships between sport-specific motor skills and measures of fitness in high school athletes. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between throwing velocity with muscular strength and power in boys high school water polo athletes after a 4-week resistance training block targeting strength. Eighteen athletes from one high school were recruited. Age, height, and body mass were recorded prior to training. Performance testing occurred in one day after the 4-week training block; strength was measured using combined handgrip strength from both hands and isometric lower-body strength via a leg/back dynamometer. Power was measured by a countermovement jump and 2-kg seated medicine ball throw. As a motor skill metric, participants maximally threw a water polo ball to measure throwing velocity. Partial correlations and stepwise regression controlling for age calculated relationships between throwing velocity with handgrip strength, leg/back strength, the countermovement jump, and medicine ball throw (p<0.05). Combined handgrip strength (r=0.712), leg/back strength (r=0.656), and the medicine ball throw (r=0.684) all showed significant positive relationships with throwing velocity. Age and combined handgrip strength predicted throwing velocity with 61.3% explained variance (r2=0.658, p<0.001). The data indicated that throwing velocity significantly related to handgrip and leg/back strength and upper-body power (measured by the medicine ball throw). As the program targeted these qualities, this could have influenced the relationships with the sport-specific motor skill of throwing.

Keywords

isometric strength, upper-body power, motor skill, resistance training, teenager

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