Effect of Upper Limb Ergometer Training on Power and Endurance for College Athletes

Background:

Power and endurance training is a critical component for athletes.​ Strategies and designs are optimized for athletes in sports depending on endurance and power properties.​ Endurance – to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time activity for long period of time without fatigue.​ Power - ability of the neuromuscular system to produce the greatest possible impulse in a given time period. Athletes have injuries most commonly to the overall upper limb muscles​25% of adolescents reported injury at least once in recreational sports. In sports, to resist external forces via altered recruitment of shoulder and arm musculature; conversely, the external forces applied on-ergometer may directly alter upper limb, thus affecting associated muscle recruitment patterns.

Objective:

To evaluate the effectiveness of upper limb ergometer training on power (Repetition maximum) for college athletes.​ To evaluate the effectiveness of upper limb ergometer training on endurance (heart rate, MET) for college athletes.​

Methods:

It is an interventional study with total of 30 subjects only male players will be selected according to inclusion criteria. They will be classified as a single group according to pre and post test values. Trained for 6 weeks, alternate days per week.

Result:

Statistical analysis will be done after data collected and conclusion would be drawn.

Keywords:

Ergometer, power, endurance, recreational athletes