Associações entre os níveis de coordenação motora grossa e desempenho esportivo em indivíduos jovens

Abstract

There is an increasing number of studies reporting an association between positive motor coordination levels, through generic tests, and sports performance in young people. However, volleyball escaped healthy. Furthermore, it is not yet known whether the assessment of coordination levels in the clear can be useful in the process of identifying sports talent. Therefore, the general objective of the present work was to investigate the association between the levels of motor coordination, evaluation with the use of generic tests and the performance in children and adolescents. For this, two studies were developed in this dissertation. In Study 1, a systematic review was carried out, with the objective of verifying the use of the evaluation of the levels of general motor coordination, carried out through generic motor tests, without identifying the process of sporting talent in individuals. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Metanalyses protocol was used and the overall quality assessment of the studies was performed based on the “Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology” (STROBE). The results suggest that the use of generic motor tests may be important in the process of identifying motor talents, since the level of motor coordination is associated with sports performance and, as such, important for performance discrimination and prediction. In Study 2, a cross-sectional investigation was carried out, with the objective of verifying whether the levels of motor coordination, evaluated using the Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK), are associated with performance in the specific motor skills of volleyball "serve" and "headline". ”. A sample of 34 adolescent volleyball players was analyzed. Motor performance in volleyball-specific skills was assessed using two product-oriented tasks: the “serve” and the “headline”. Pearson correlation tests and linear regression models were performed. In general, the results indicated that the levels of motor coordination, evaluated through the KTK, are associated with the performance in specific volleyball skills. Furthermore, regression analyzes revealed that the KTK test tasks can explain up to 30.5% of the variation in performance in volleyball skills. generic drugs are associated with the sports performance of children and adolescents. The results obtained can be useful to professionals who deal with sports in different contexts, whether in the process of identifying talents or in making pedagogical decisions in educational institutions and volleyball schools.