Influence Of Sports Games On Children’S Coordination Ability And Lower Limb Muscle Strength

PURPOSE: to explore the influence of the developed sports game intervention programs on children’s physical coordination and lower limb strength, and to compare the effects of routine gymnastics and sports game intervention, so as to better develop children ’ s physical coordination and lower limb strength, and provide effective intervention programs in line with the characteristics of children’s physical and mental development. METHODS: 48 children aged 4-5 were selected and randomly divided into two groups based on teaching classes - sports game group and gymnastics group - each with 24 children. The developed sports game programs were adopted to intervene children of the sports game group. The intervention period was 4 weeks, 3 times a week, 30 minutes each time. In the same intervention cycle and intervention time, children in the gymnastics group did basic gymnastics. RESULTS: repeated measures of variance were analysed to compare the changes of children’s physical coordination and lower limb strength in different groups before and after the intervention. The results showed that both the children in the sports game group and the gymnastics group took less time in the continuous jumping test after the intervention than before the intervention (sports game group: 8.94s±1.86s vs. 5.78±0.99s, p<0.05; gymnastics group:10.04s±2.66s vs. 7.74s±1.60s, p<0.05), but the sports game group took significantly less time for continuous jumping test after intervention than the gymnastics group (5.78s±0.99s vs. 7.74s±1.60s, p<0.05). CONCLUSION: compared with children’s basic gymnastics, the developed sports game programs are more targeted to the development of children’s physical coordination and lower limb strength, therefore more effective for that purpose.