Efficacity of Movement Games in Improving Body Composition and Improving Overall Motor Function in Ante-Pubertal Children

Simona Ștefania Hangu ()
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Simona Ștefania Hangu: School no. 190 Bucharest

Marathon, 2017, vol. 9, issue 2, 172-182

Abstract: The current challenge of prevention and combating child obesity addressed to the professionals in the social, medical, psychological, etc. field is addressed also to the specialists in the field of physical education and sport. The purpose of this paper is to make contributions in projects to prevent overweight an obesity in primary school by using of athletics and movement games. Our goal is that by practicing physical exercises regularly, three times a week, outside of physical education classes and through collaboration with specialists (doctors, counselors, nutritionists) we to be able to offer to these children a healthier and a better life, both through weight loss and through their habituation to independently and regularly practices physical exercises. Research methods In the experiment the following research methods were used: pedagogic experiment, the method of testing, statistical and mathematical method, graphical method, comparative analysis. The pedagogic experiment was conducted over a period of 2 years, during which the pupils of the I-IV grades within the School no. 190 of Bucharest. The final conclusion is that the program to prevent and combat overweight and obesity in low-age school children consisting in practicing 3 times a week for 1 h of exercises based on the means athletics and dynamic games had a positive impact both on the composition of their body and on their motor skills, which greatly improved, on the confidence in theirown person, some of the pupils being directed in the final even to practice a performance sport.

Keywords: : motion games; ante-pubertal children; motility; obesity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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