Arm Grip Strength and Its Relationship to Biokinetic Variables and Snatch Lift for the Iraqi Woman’s Weightlifting Team

Abstract

Strength is one of the basic elements in weightlifting, which occupies the largest proportion of the elements of special physical fitness .the weightlifter’s mass is considered the true indicator of this lift, the snatch lift, in weightlifting for this strength .arm strength has a large part in achieving this lift, it was necessary to measure this strength directly through a grip strength measuring  device and measure strength through the indirect method, which is the product of mass and acceleration. Here the research problem arises through the following question: Is there a relationship between grip strength and achievement in the snatch lift on the one hand, and a relationship between grip strength and achievement in the snatch lift on the other hand? The research aims to identify the grip strength of the arms, as well as to identify the biomechanical variables of weightlifters, to identify the achievement in the snatch lift, and to identify the relationship between grip strength and biomechanical variables on the one hand, and the relationship between grip strength and achievement in the snatch lift on the other. The researcher assumed the existence of a statistically significant relationship between the studied variables. The research procedures included the research sample of ten Iraqi national team weightlifters participating in the training course at the Rose Resort in Shaqlawa, Erbil, Iraq. The researcher used the descriptive approach using the comparative method. The researcher then obtained data for each of the grip strength of the arms and the achievement in the snatch lift, the best attempt, and the biokinetic variables, which were processed by applying the scale and tests to the research sample of weightlifters. The data were processed statistically to reach the results and correlations between the studied variables, and then come out with a number of conclusions, including the results showed that the grip strength values are between the acceptable and the average within the evaluation table prepared in most Arab sources. The achievement values in the arithmetic average in the snatch lift reached within the Iraqi average for the lifted weight. The direct strength values in the arithmetic average reached positive in the research sample studied. The recommendations are the necessity of conducting and continuing with skillful training, especially the arms, because of their great importance in strengthening the grip strength of the research sample, and the necessity of raising the achievement values in the snatch lift because it is relatively low, which increases it by increasing the degree of training load from the intensity of Size and appropriate density and reliance on indirect force (mass x ground acceleration) in future studies because it truly represents force.