Effects of an exercise program to train the upperbody in children from the city of Las Cabras

Abstract

According to the results obtained by the Physical Education SIMCE 2011, eight grade students must improve their upper body strength. This study aims to generate a localized triceps’ training plan with their own body weight during the physical education classes in a five week program with a sample group of 250 students. The results showed an increase of the medias of 5.598 repetitions, which is reflected in a 16.21% improvement of this quality. When making a distinction between males and females, we found that males showed a 12.5% improvement in their performance, while females had a 21.5% improvement, which can be explained by the existence of a significant difference when applying the Student’s t-test to a confidence level of 95% (p>0.05). We conclude that when performing a motor stimulation program, encouraging results are obtained for substantial improvements in the physical qualities of strength.