Differences in physical-coordinative capacities in children from 6 to 12 years old

Authors

  • María Gámez Gómez Universidad de Málaga Spain
  • Alejandro Fernández González Spain
  • Samantha Muller Spain
  • Mª del Carmen Losada Berlanga Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/JPEHMjpehmjpehm.v4i113391

Keywords:

Coordination, speed, flexibility, football, sedentary

Abstract

Sports practice has a positive influence on physical and coordination maturity in childhood. This is a descriptive study and its purpose was to assess the differences in coordination skills, speed and flexibility, between children participating in extracurricular sports activities and a control group. 146 schoolchildren between 6 and 12 years old (92 boys and 54 girls) participated, 68 who practiced athletics, 49 soccer and 29 who did not perform any extracurricular activity. Three different tests were applied whose main objective was to determine the significant differences in the levels of visual-motor and general coordination (Test 3JS), speed-coordination (Test shuttle run 4x10) and extensibility of the hamstring muscles (Test Sit and Reach). Data are reported as mean and standard deviation. A descriptive analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA) have been performed to examine the differences between the three groups (athletics, football and control group). The results of this analysis point to the existence of significant differences between the groups that perform extracurricular sports with respect to the control group. The soccer group is the one that shows the highest coordination index and the one that registers the lowest scores in flexibility. The athletics group is the one that shows the best index in flexibility and in task 5 (Slalom race, General dynamic coordination) of the 3JS Test. The control group obtained the lowest results in the different tests with respect to the schoolchildren who participated in extracurricular sports, except in the levels of flexibility, which are slightly better than the soccer group.

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Published

2022-08-28

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Gámez Gómez, M., Fernández González, A., Muller, S., & Losada Berlanga, M. del C. . (2022). Differences in physical-coordinative capacities in children from 6 to 12 years old. Journal of Physical Education and Human Movement, 4(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.24310/JPEHMjpehmjpehm.v4i113391

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