The Effects of Push-Up Training on Muscular Strength and Muscular Endurance

Introduction: Various fitness challenges had been invented and innovated in order to integrate exercise in life, especially during the new norm of Covid-19 pandemic. There is a lack of study on the effect of push-up exercise on sedentary women. The study aimed to compare the effects of six-week push-up (PU) and low-load bench press (BP) exercise interventions towards muscular strength (MS) and muscular endurance (ME) among healthy sedentary female youth. Methodology: Forty (n= 40) healthy sedentary female youth (aged 18.93 ±.97 years; body mass index 23.44 ±4.5 kg/m2) were recruited in the study. Participants were divided into two groups of training interventions (push-up and bench press group). Resistance exercise intervention involving four sessions per week for six consecutive weeks. Each session comprised of 3 sets of 12 repetitions with one minute of rest between each set. Bench press exercise was performed at 40% 1RM for bench press group. One-repetition maximum bench press (1RM BP) test and one-minute push-up (1Min PU) test were performed at pre and post-intervention to measure muscular strength and muscular endurance. A 2 x 2 mixed model ANOVA was employed to compare the effects of the two interventions following six-weeks of training. Result: Muscular strength and muscular endurance for the push-up group have significantly improved (p < .05), with at the end of the intervention were 59.75 ±13.91 and 45.05 ±6.59 as compared to during the pre-intervention of 42.0± 11.40 and 28.95 ±5.93, respectively. A similar result also found for bench press group. Muscular strength and muscular endurance for bench press group had significantly increased (p < .05), from the pre-test of 44.50 ±9.58 and 29.95 ±6.28 to the post-test of 60.25 ±10.45 and 41.45 ±6.20, respectively. However, there is no significant difference observed between groups (bench press and push-up protocols) on muscular strength (p= .661) and muscular endurance (p= .472). Conclusions: The present study concludes that push-up and low-load bench press exercise interventions do significantly improve muscular strength and muscular endurance of sedentary female youth, with push-up as an alternative for bench press for sedentary female youth.

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The Effects of Movable Range of Shoulder Joint and Muscular Strength and Muscular Endurance of Upper·Lower Limbs on Athletic Performance of Soft Tennis Players

Korean Journal of Sports Science ◽

10.35159/kjss.2019.02.28.1.1403 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 1403-1409

Author(s):

Seung-Wook Choi

Keyword(s):

Athletic Performance ◽

Shoulder Joint ◽

Muscular Strength ◽

Muscular Endurance ◽

Tennis Players

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Age-Related Differences in Muscular Strength and Muscular Endurance among Female Masters Swimmers

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport ◽

10.1080/02701367.1985.10608442 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 97-102 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Gail M. Dummer ◽

David H. Clarke ◽

Paul Vaccaro ◽

Lee Vander Velden ◽

Allan H. Goldfarb ◽

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Keyword(s):

Muscular Strength ◽

Muscular Endurance ◽

Age Related

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European normative values for physical fitness in children and adolescents aged 9–17 years: results from 2 779 165 Eurofit performances representing 30 countries

British Journal of Sports Medicine ◽

10.1136/bjsports-2017-098253 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 52 (22) ◽

pp. 1445-1456 ◽

Cited By ~ 72

Author(s):

Grant R Tomkinson ◽

Kevin D Carver ◽

Frazer Atkinson ◽

Nathan D Daniell ◽

Lucy K Lewis ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Fitness ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Muscular Strength ◽

Normative Values ◽

Muscular Endurance ◽

Muscular Power ◽

Monitoring And Surveillance ◽

Lms Method ◽

Better Than ◽

Apparently Healthy

ObjectiveTo develop sex-specific and age-specific normative values for the nine Eurofit tests in European children and adolescents aged 9–17 years.MethodsA systematic review was undertaken to identify papers that explicitly reported descriptive results for at least one of nine Eurofit tests (measuring balance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, muscular power, flexibility, speed, speed-agility and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF)) on children and adolescents. Data were included on apparently healthy (free from known disease/injury) children and adolescents aged 9–17 years. Following harmonisation for methodological variation where appropriate, pseudodata were generated using Monte Carlo simulation, with population-weighted sex-specific and age-specific normative centiles generated using the Lambda Mu Sigma (LMS) method. Sex-specific and age-specific differences were expressed as standardised differences in means, with the percentage of children and adolescents with healthy CRF estimated at the sex-age level.ResultsNorms were displayed as tabulated centiles and as smoothed centile curves for the nine Eurofit tests. The final dataset included 2 779 165 results on children and adolescents from 30 European countries, extracted from 98 studies. On average, 78% of boys (95% CI 72% to 85%) and 83% of girls (95% CI 71% to 96%) met the standards for healthy CRF, with the percentage meeting the standards decreasing with age. Boys performed substantially (standardised differences >0.2) better than girls on muscular strength, muscular power, muscular endurance, speed-agility and CRF tests, but worse on the flexibility test. Physical fitness generally improved at a faster rate in boys than in girls, especially during the teenage years.ConclusionThis study provides the largest and most geographically representative sex-specific and age-specific European normative values for children and adolescents, which have utility for health and fitness screening, profiling, monitoring and surveillance.

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Cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular endurance responses immediately and 2 months after a whole-body Tabata or vigorous-intensity continuous training intervention

Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism ◽

10.1139/apnm-2019-0492 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (6) ◽

pp. 650-658 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hashim Islam ◽

Tina L. Siemens ◽

Jennifer B.L. Matusiak ◽

Laura Sawula ◽

Jacob T. Bonafiglia ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cardiorespiratory Fitness ◽

Time Trial ◽

Whole Body ◽

Individual Response ◽

Muscular Endurance ◽

Continuous Training ◽

Exercise Interventions ◽

Training Post ◽

Vigorous Intensity ◽

Push Up

Young adults (52 females, 16 males; age = 21 ± 3 years; V̇O2peak: 41 ± 6 mL/(kg·min)) were randomized into 3 groups: (i) no-exercise control (CTL; n = 15), (ii) Tabata (n = 27), or (iii) vigorous-intensity continuous training (VICT; n = 26) groups for a 4-week supervised training period (4 sessions/week). V̇O2peak, time-to-fatigue (TTF), 5 km time-trial performance (TT), and muscular endurance were assessed at baseline, post-training (POST), and 2-month follow-up (FU). Response confidence intervals (CI) were used to classify individuals as likely responders (R; CI > 0). Both exercise interventions increased TTF and TT at POST (both p < 0.01), but these benefits were maintained at FU after VICT only (p < 0.01). Push-up performance was increased at POST and FU (both p < 0.01) after Tabata. VICT resulted in a greater proportion of TTF R versus both groups at POST (CTL: 1/15; VICT: 19/26; Tabata: 9/27) and versus Tabata at FU (3/15; 13/26; 4/27). VICT also had a greater proportion of TT R versus CTL at POST (2/15; 17/26; 10/27). Tabata had a greater proportion of R for maximum push-up repetitions versus both groups at POST (3/15; 6/26; 18/27) and versus CTL at FU (2/15; 10/26; 18/27). Collectively, VICT appears to be more effective for improving cardiorespiratory fitness, whereas whole-body Tabata confers larger improvements in push-up performance following short-term training. Novelty: Vigorous-intensity continuous training elicits larger improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness versus whole-body Tabata. Individual response profiles parallel group-level changes in cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular endurance.

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