One Sport or Many? Comparing the Effects of Athletics and Multiactivity Training on Motor Competence in 6–10-Year-Olds—A Case Study
Nataniel Lopes, Miguel Jacinto, Diogo Monteiro, Rui Matos, Sérgio J Ibáñez, Giuseppe Musumeci · 2025
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Description
Nataniel Lopes and co-authors compared in 2025 two training menus for young athletes: athletics alone, or athletics mixed with other activities. Motor competence, the skilled control of many movements, grows best in childhood, and clubs must choose between depth in one sport and breadth across several.
Sixty-four children aged six to ten at one club trained for twelve weeks. One group of thirty-two did athletics three times a week. The other trained twice in athletics and once in a rotating activity such as handball, gymnastics, swimming, or motor games. A standard motor battery measured competence before and after. The head byline runs to five names against six in the catalog, so the team framing is used. Readers get a case study for a common coaching fork, tested on the same track.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nataniel Lopes, Miguel Jacinto, Diogo Monteiro, Rui Matos, Sérgio J Ibáñez, Giuseppe Musumeci |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |