Children & Sports Training - Jozef Drabik

Product Description

This book is different from other books on sports training and fitness for children. Its most important contribution is in the explanation of "sensitive ages" for development of movement abilities (endurance, coordination, speed, strength, flexibility) and what exercises you should use for developing these abilities at any given age. The existence of sensitive ages is related to sex differences and the need to develop separate programs of exercises for girls and boys from the onset of puberty. The exercises that fully develop the potential of a 12-year-old girl will harm a 12-year-old boy. Exercises that are good for the boy are less challenging for the girl and thus hold her back. The consequence of not doing just the right kind of exercises at just the right age is reduced fitness and athletic potential lost forever. In the case of girls it is easier to inflict lasting damage because their sensitive ages are shorter than boys'. Another unique feature in this work is a set of physical education lessons and workout examples that show how to teach skills while maintaining a high level of activity and effort intensity.

Product Details
* Amazon Sales Rank: #680346 in Books
* Published on: 1996-01-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 250 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Scientific American
I read it with pleasure and I think it is worthwhile for teachers of physical education. It also reveals a lot of research that is not published in English, German or French.

Review
This book represents the cumulative knowledge and experience of the author and many of his colleagues related to the progressive preparation and training for children in organized sports. Unfortunately, much of the extensive experience of the Eastern Bloc countries and the Soviet Union itself has never been published or shared with the rest of the world. This book represents a significant contribution to our knowledge of progressive sports training in children and, in particular, shares the author's concept of the `sensitive ages' for enhancement of muscle strength, speed, endurance, coordination, and flexibility...this text is written in a careful and simple progression of ideas which should be comprehensible to anyone who has had a secondary school level of scientific training and who is also involved in physical education at either the community-based or school-based level. I strongly recommend this book to anyone dealing with or responsible for progressive sports training of young athletes. The truism that children are not simply small adults is especially borne out by this small gem of a book. -- Lyle J. Micheli, M.D., Director of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston; President of American College of Sports Medicine; Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons