The effect of 8 weeks of punch resistance band and dumbbell training on the arm power of ‘youth’ male boxers

Abstract

This study aims to compare the effect of resistance band and dumbbell punch training on male boxers in the youth category (17 – 18 years). This type of research is an experiment with a two groups pretest-posttest design. The training was carried out 24 times with 3 meetings in 1 week. The research sample was 24 male boxers with the characteristics of age 17±0.5 years, weight 51±3.1 kg, height 165.5±2.5 cm, experience 1.9±0.6 years. The test instrument is a two hand medicine ball chest pass, with a ball weight of 3 kg. The level of validity of the test shows an Aiken V value of 0.925 and Cronbach Alpha reliability of 0.734. The results of this research using the t test show that punch resistance band training has a sig. 0.001 (p