It is a well known fact that physical activity has a big influence on children's overall growth and development (physical, cognitive, emotional and motorical). By encouraging children to participate and enjoy in sports... [ view full abstract ]
It is a well known fact that physical activity has a big influence on children's overall growth and development (physical, cognitive, emotional and motorical). By encouraging children to participate and enjoy in sports activities we are helping them to avoid possible future medical issues and learning them how to build a habit of healthy living. There are main motorical abilities in every physical activity that vary due to different factors.
The main goal of my paper was to distinguish all the differences in motor abilities (agility, repetative strength, flexibility and static strength) between preschool girls according to their time spent in physical activities.
The research was conducted among 165 subjects during three consecutive academic years. All the subjects were females, all of them attended nursery schools in Zagreb and for this survey they were divided into two groups. The first group participated in a 60 minutes complete sport programme four times a week, opposed to the second group that participated in the same programme but only twice a week.
For the needs of this survey, four motor variables were measured three times; agility, repetitive strength, flexibility and static strength. To get the final results of this analysis, I used the survey results that were conducted at the end of the academic year that is - the results gained by the final measurement.
The survey results indicate significant differences between the girls in the first and the second years of participation in kinesiology activities in the agility assessment test, and between the girls in the third year of participation in kinesiology activities in the agility assessment and static strength assessment tests.
Key words: children, development, motor skills
