Early childhood is the time when motor actions first emerge. During their first years of life,children learn gross motor skills, which include
movements like walking, grasping, climbing, and leaping that require the coordination of the large muscles in the body. These motor skills are
acquired early in life and get better as children grow older. In addition, throughout the early stages of their development, children gain fine
motor skills responsible for small and precise movements (Bompa & Carrera, 2015). During their everyday activities, whether in the
kindergarten or at home, kids run, play, catch, and throw various objects, which allows for the refinement of both gross and fine motor skills (Bompa & Carrera, 2015). Engaging in physical exercises can also result beneficial in reducing anxiety levels and depression in children.
Physical Components Of Children Participating In Team Sports – A Literature Review
Published in JPASE Journal (Volume 6, Issue 2, December 2023)
Abstract
The development of young athletes is critical, and therefore, adequate training programs must be designed to help them grow, develop healthily, and achieve outstanding results in the sports in which they compete. The growth process is unique in every child, and every stage in this process is marked by changes physical, psychological, emotional, and cognitive changes. Coaches must build training programs that fit the needs of every stage. It is common knowledge that children of the same age group exhibit variations in developmental milestones. According to Jukic et al. (2021), it is important to take into account athletes’ ages, and the following factors should be considered: chronological age; biological age in young athletes; metabolic age; and sports age, which refers to years of participation in organised sports. Guidelines for age-appropriate agility training are primarily hypothetical due to a scarcity of information in this area. Numerous investigations have found that agility naturally increases with age (along with training), particularly between childhood and adolescence (Zemková & Hamar, 2014). Training adaptation for enhancing agility is linked not just to the effects of relevant training stimuli, but also to young athletes’ inherent developmental processes (Harrison & McGuigan, 2019). The synthesis of the literature on training programs for young subjects is an important first step towards determining effective sports training techniques adequate for meeting the needs of the respective age groups. Furthermore, this literature evaluation is intended to disclose shortages of evidence and prospective study efforts, as well as to identify supporting data linked to training capacity, inherent growth, and contributing factors in motor performance in young adults.
Keywords
sports games, training programs, speed, strength, agility.
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