Study of the Impact of the Motor Characteristics of Speed on the Age Peculiarities

Abstract

Studying motor qualities and their different performance aspects is one of the main goals of experts in physical education and sport. Determining the peculiarities of motor qualities performance, especially speed is the result of numerous tests which reveal lowered levels of both motor and physical activity of children. Taking into account the fact that the quality of speed is one of the basic goals in teaching physical education and sport at school, studying its changes along with the age development of the students is fundamental for the selection of methods and resources for its purposefully development during the lessons. Based on the above-mentioned facts, the aim of the current study is to trace the changes and their impact on the speed quality with schoolgirls via a 30-metre-race test. In order to achieve the aim, we set the following tasks: 1. Reading about the problem in scientific sources. 2. Processing the results of the 30-metre-race test of the girls whose personal data were taken for the research project, performed in 2018. 3. Revealing the impact peculiarities of the speed quality with schoolgirls in the aspect of age. We fulfilled our study tasks by statistic processing the achievements of the girls aged 6-18 from 28 schools in 22 towns in the country, having participated in the 30-metre-race test. We applied a variation and comparative analysis which allowed us to specify the impact peculiarities of the motor quality in its age aspect. After processing and analysing the results of the study we found a lot of changes in the speed performance with schoolgirls. These changes showed different periods of intense development of the quality, based on the increased results among the different ages. On the grounds of the above-mentioned results we recommend the use of specific means and methods to improve the effect on speed in school age.