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The objective of the study was to investigate the effect of hypoventilation training at low lung/pulmonary volume on strength endurance of male national level boxers. For this purpose, a total of sixty subjects (N=60) were selected from Sports Complex Sector-42 and 56 Chandigarh. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the subjects. The subjects were equally divided into two groups: experimental (n=30) and control (n=30) by random assignment. Randomized subjects, pretest-posttest control group design was adopted for the experiment. The age of the subjects ranged between 18 to 25 years. The subjects of both groups were tested before and after the 12-weeks of intervention with pull-ups test on strength endurance. The experimental group underwent hypoventilation training (at low lung volume) for 12-weeks period, three times in a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). Shadow boxing, punching bag or pads exercises were carried out as a hypoventilation training by the boxers of experimental group. The control group boxers continued to participate in the normal training program. To find out the effect of hypoventilation on strength endurance paired samples t-test was applied. Level of significance was set at 0.05. Significant improvement was observed in strength endurance in experimental group.