A study of relationship between isometric muscles strength and Olympic weightlifting skills snatch and clean & jerk performance of varsity male weight lifters

Abstract

The Purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Isometric Muscles Strength and Olympic weightlifting skills Performance of 18 to 25 year old 30 male university students, who have participated at university level in weight lifting sport in the last 3years (2020-2023). The Isometric Muscles Strength of the varsity male weight lifters was measured through Plank hold test, three chances to be given and best time (Maximum time to hold) recorded to select a score of the athlete and data of Olympic weightlifting skills Snatch and Clean & Jerk Performance of University weight lifters was collected from university competitions and best performance were taken as data score. The Person’s Product Movement Correlation (p> .05) was used to find out the relationship. The result of the present study shows that Isometric Muscles Strength (Plank test) is significantly related to Olympic weightlifting skills Snatch (r= 0.30) and Clean & Jerk(r= 0.32) Performance.