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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1964</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>EFFECT OF PUSHUP TRAINING ON UPPER BODY STRENGTH AND POWER IN YOUNG&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shah</surname><given-names>Salvi</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>43</fpage><lpage>53</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Strength and Endurance in the muscles of upper body, specifically the chest, shoulder triceps and core is a good indication of overall fitness. Proper pushups are one of the best exercises for developing pushing strength and power for upper body. Aim of Study: To study effectiveness of dynamic/plyometric pushup training on upper body&#13;
strength and power and to study the comparative effectiveness of dynamic/plyometric pushup training Methodology: Study design: An experimental comparative study Sample selection: A random sample of 30 students were taken from government Physiotherapy college, civil hospital, Ahmedabad after giving due consideration to inclusion and exclusion criteria. All of__ampersandsignnbsp;them took part in study on a voluntary basis after signing consent. Sample size: Total 30 Group A: Dynamic pushup training-15, Group B:Plyometric push up training-15 Inclusion criteria Age-18-24 years, Male students, Students who have experience in recreational over head sports Exclusion criteria Any major upper extremity/back injury within last one year, An active participation in an intercollegiate athletics or bodybuilding during study, Those who reported__ampersandsignnbsp;performance enhancing drugs, Any medical illness Outcome measures 1 RM bench press for measuring strength, Medicine ball put test for measuring power. Results: In Group A and Group B results showed highly significant__ampersandsignnbsp; mprovement in 1 RM and medicine ball putdistance after 6 weeks of exercise at 5% level of significance. On comparing Group A and Group B the results showed no significant difference in improvements in 1RM but showed significant difference in improvement in medicine ball put distance between both groups at 5% level of significance. Conclusion: From the present study it can be concluded that plyometric pushup exercises are superior to dynamic pushup exercises in terms of strength and power.&#13;
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