Physical education (PE) at school is an important starting point for long-term interventions improving quality of life in elderly. To evaluate the effectiveness of professionally led PE on motor and health-related abilities of Italian primary schoolchildren (3rd-5th graders), three schools were assigned to the experimental groups "A" (38 pupils, 17 M, 21 F) and "B" (37 pupils, 16 M, 21 F), and to control group "C" (26 pupils, 18 M, 8 F). All groups underwent a six-month, twice-a-week (60 min each session) PE intervention. The PE program of the EGs was age-tailored, included strength training and was administered by specialised teachers. Group A and B programs differed in the strength training devices used, while they were identical in terms of training load. The control group program was not structured and administered by generalist teachers. At baseline and follow-up, children underwent a motor and health-related abilities test battery. At follow-up, children in group C gained significantly more weight than children in the EGs and scored significantly less than the children in the EGs in the following assessments: counter movement jump (C:+0.15% vs. A:+4.1% and B:+6.99%), plate tapping (C:+13.56% vs. A:+19.37% and B:+36.12%), sit-and-reach (C:-311.15% vs. B:+409.57%), pinch strength (C:+2.39% vs. B:+10.83, on average) and sit-up (C:+29.69% vs. A:+72.61%). In conclusion, specialist-led pupils demonstrated greater increases in some motor and health-related abilities tests compared to generalist-led peers, while different strength training devices produced comparable increases of strength in both EGs.

The football game is the most beloved sport among society, especially for its emotional and recreational worthiness. Dribbling is the most important ability. It is intended to be as the capability of keeping the ball afloat preventing it from touching the ground by using the two lower limbs. The most time the ball lingers afloat, the highest level the doer shows to have achieved. The main point of this research is to spot the most adequate educative method in dribbling. By confronting two different learning methods, I have tried to develop a way of making headways in the above process. On the one hand the cognitive approach in the scientific paradigm turns out to work with a fabricated set of rules within which the little boy must move, whereas in the eco-dynamic approach the heuristic way of learning is followed. The results give out two solutions: the first one shows an increasing ability pursued by gradual repetitions, beginning with a low degree of complexity up until a major difficulty; the last one aims at getting gratification on "no ruling" ground. In the first case, the players must stick to the coach's orders and timing conditions. In the second one the doers are just given the space and tools, neither timing nor conditions are set. They only have to express themselves as much as they like. Both methods grasp to the ordinary educational system.

The youth soccer is always important especially for the assessment and the data of development of skills. The monitoring of them it could be important for the trainer to reorganize the planning of training and for the adaptation to individual athlete Aim of the study is to recruit the quantitative data about the anthropometric and performance aspects for reutilize to rearrangement of training planning. Method is experimental and has to carry out the usual parameters for monitoring the trainings. Anthropometric data are weight, height, BMI and performance data are Vo2max (Cooper) speed triangle test (three corner run) and speed test with (dribbling) on a sample are 13 athletes of 13 years old that play championship under 14. BMI Data shows 6 weight, 4 in overweight risk and 3 in overweight. Cooper test data shows 2 above-average, 5 average, 5 below average and 1 poor. Mean speed triangle test 32.38 seconds, mean dibbling test 25.39 seconds. The results have to be useful for tool method of training.

In this review, a critical reading of the literary and scientifi c production focused on the themes of the body, movement and language learning was carried out, with particular consideration given to alternative teaching methods that use movement to favour the cognitive process. After searching the databases of Pub Med, PsycInfo, Sport Discus, Psyc Articles and Eric electronic, the choice was narrowed down to 8 international scientifi c studies with publication dates ranging between the years 1999 and 2017 concerning preschool subjects between 2 and 5 years of age, excluding those regarding other target users and/or particular characteristics such as pathologies, obesity, and nutrition. All of these studies analysed the benefi ts of motor activity on language, communication, learning and academic performance. Of the 7 fi ltered studies, 4 examine the specifi c relationship between motor activity and language, while the other 3 between language and general academic performance. Through the analysis of the fi ltered reports and some of the bibliographical references used, we conclude that motor activity positively infl uences language, attention and concentration of the pupils in this age range, with eff ects on academic performance. Furthermore, it also improves motor skills as a result of decreased sedentary behaviour.

Evaluation tests represent a fundamental step in the educational path of working with small football players. The method used is of an experimental type whose aim is to analyse the capacity of children in the execution of three fundamental technical aspects of football: Short and Long Passage, Header shot and Shot on Target from a stationary position and in movement. We want to emphasize the importance of training the technical gesture starting from the little ones. In fact, too much tacticism combined with a continuous search for physicality in every area of the field has produced in the last decade an innumerable series of technically poorly trained players. The tests were performed on a sample of 12 children of 10 years old that play championship under-10. The data shows the score from each child during the execution of the various tests from which the total result was obtained by adding the points awarded for each attempt. The average of the high scores for the various tests was 13 for short pass; 27.3 for long pass; 3.6 for the header shot t; 9.6, and 7.75 respectively for stationary and moving shot on goal. The results can be used at the beginning of the activity and when a new group is available to identify the gaps to work on and then they can be repeated in other and different periods of the season to verify how effective the work done up to that point was.

From the recognition of the scientific literature it emerges that the International Paralympic Committee and the Italian Paralympic Committee, together with the Special Olympics, present a segregative imprint in sports activities, as the current Regulations allow the restricted participation to specific types of disabilities, excluding the inclusion of others, so the difficulty lies in finding a different method that is suitable for all the different types of athletes. Taking up the two approaches (cognitive and ecological), mentioned in the previous study, it is preferable to limit the method of prescriptive teaching for athletes with disabilities on 100, 200, 400m, because they must adapt to a diversity compared to non-disabled people. For this reason, the adaptation is personal and then it occurs according to the heuristic learning method. Therefore, the integration of the above mentioned approaches is proposed, giving shape to a model characterized by a specific training of organic and muscular adaptations, also in qualitative terms, with the integration of heuristic learning and types of periodization and training methods with differences in the competition rules. The aim of this study is to hypothesize, through the theoretical method, a model that is able to enhance all types of athletes, according to their specific characteristics.

Each category of disability includes a different type of training that meets your needs. Therefore it is important that each trainer is able to make adequate methodological-didactic decisions, resorting to an ecological and/or cognitive approach, depending on the objectives to be achieved. The following research aims to study the differences in the theories-methods of sprint training (100 meters) adopted in the different categories of athletes: élite able-bodied and disabled athlete. The method adopted is the archival research with the comparison of selected scientific product selected through the revision in the specific topics. The described data contains elements of the different physical characteristics of each athlete, the limits, the possibilities that each one possesses and the organic-muscular adaptations. In conclusion, it is possible to affirm that this implies a personal adaptation to the training method, capable to enhancing all types of athletes according to their specific characteristics.

Rhythmic gymnastics is an Olympic sport with qualifying and coordinating features characterized by "small tools". The competitive program includes both individual and team performances. An individualist gymnast presents four different routines, each with a different tool, while the team presents two different compositions, one with the same type of tool and the other with two types of tools. Dyslexia is a learning disorder, the failure of the development of hemispheric dominance or conflicts of dominance between the two hemispheres. In addition to having learning problems, people suffering from dyslexia also have problems in cognition of their bodies within space and with the musical rhythm. The aim is to analyse a case of dyslexic athlete inherent to performance, self-esteem and sociality. Through the case study and ethnographic approach it was found that the gymnast manages to achieve the same results as the other gymnasts who train with her, but showing a small difficulty in teamwork. These results encourage to explore the links between activities and data because you have in front of you an athlete to all intents and purposes, with every pros and cons that every human being can show, even if in this case the corrections must be made in a more patient way and for the results you have to wait a little more time.