Skeletal muscle composition is valuable information for physicians, athletes/coaches, physiotherapists, scientists, etc. From this information a timing of treatment and final results are depending. Since now only nvasive techniques were known, which limits us in everyday use. We have proposed a noninvasive technique that enables valid and reliable measurement of muscle composition with use of linear displacement sensor and nonpainful electrical stimulation.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1992147
Motor learning and motor competencies are two key factors responsible for efficient child development. Both of them enables individuals’ lifespan inclusion in physical activities and determines sufficient physical/sport performance with higher quality of life. Motor development is not dependent just on the physical growth but also on motor skills, motor knowledge and motor learning. Motor learning plays an important role in the development of fundamental motor skills as well as in ontogenetic motor skills. Sufficient adaptation of motor knowledge and motor skills is dependent primary on motor experiences experienced from informationa rich feedback environment. Physical activity and physical experiences plays an important role in child self and environmental conception to join others and in motor problem solving.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4202455
The objective of this study was to examine the associations between the amount and intensity of physical/sport activity measured with accelerometers and the climbing effectiveness of four year old children using a specially adapted vertical climbing ladder. The fundamental movement pattern of climbing was evaluated because of its important role in the process of motor development. The amount and intensity of physical activity is not correlated with climbing time. Body height, body mass and climbing rhythm as a factor of climbing proficiency were statistically significantly correlated with climbing time. Because of the importance in coherent motor development, climbing has to be an integral part of every physical activity programme in kindergartens. By offering the appropriate amount of moderate and vigorous physical activities in an environment that stimulates motor skills, children get the opportunity for developing various fundamental movement patterns, although special exercise programmes have to be designed for mastering the climbing pattern. More research has to be done in order to evaluate climbing proficiency in early childhood.
Changes, slowly but persistently occurring in human development, adjustments that are required during the life and work of the modern man, which nature cannot follow at the pace, and the decrease of basic human functional competences are some of the fundamental reasons, due to which profound attention should be dedicated to the sustainability of complete human development. Among competencies motor skill is the basis for human motor capital, which in the complete functioning of humans and in the process of preserving and ensuring health presents the fundamental lever and one of the needed skills that significantly contribute to the individual’s quality of life and development through all life periods. Consequently, the period that is devoted today to monitoring and studying motor development of the individual, by considering the role of sustainability and ecological perspective, can be named competence-oriented period, an approach that from the start and continuingly by following the set goals of the problem discussion defines motor competencies, the lifelong competency model of motor development. Among three periods of the presented model; i.e. the acquisition of motor competence, the utilization of motor competences and the decline of motor competences; the period of childhood is of substantial importance in the scope of lifelong functional competences as motor competences.