Fitball as an effective means of strengthening the physical health of preschool children

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Natalia Mishchenko
Elena Romanova
Mikhail Kolokoltsev
Victor Kraynik
Svetlana Sarsenbayeva Kubiyeva

Abstract

The article outlines the problem of pre-school children’s health preserving and strengthening. One of the ways to solve the problems of improving children’s health and preventing various diseases is proposed – fitball aerobics classes, as a type of fitness aerobics using large gymnastic balls – fitballs. The objective of this research is to characterize fitball-aerobics, as preschool children’s innovative means of physical education and to develop a methodology for the complex effects of fitball-aerobics exercises on the development of physical abilities of preschool children’s age in order to determine its effectiveness. The research was conducted in the period from 2016 to 2018 in educational organizations of preschool education in Chelyabinsk. Children of preschool age took part in the aged 5-7 years. A total of 40 children participated in the experiment, 20 people in the control group and other 20, in experimental one. The work done does not infringe on the rights and does not jeopardize the well-being of schoolchildren in accordance with the ethical standards of the Committee for the Rights of Experiments of the Helsinki Declaration. Parental consent to examine children was obtained. The developed and tested methodology for the complex effect of fitball-aerobics exercises on preschool children’s physical abilities development had a possitive impact.

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Mishchenko, N., Romanova, E., Kolokoltsev, M., Kraynik, V., & Kubiyeva, S. S. (2021). Fitball as an effective means of strengthening the physical health of preschool children. Educación Física Y Ciencia, 23(1), e168. https://doi.org/10.24215/23142561e168
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Natalia Mishchenko, Ural State University of Physical Culture, Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Education

PhD,  Assoc. Prof., Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Education, Ordzhonikidze st., 1, Chelyabinsk, 454091

Elena Romanova, Altai State University

PhD, Assoc. Prof., Department of Physical Education, 656049, 61 Lenin Av. Barnaul

Mikhail Kolokoltsev, Irkutsk National Research Technical University

Dr. of Sciences Medical, Professor, Department of Physical Culture, Irkutsk

Victor Kraynik, Altai State Pedagogical University

Dr. of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Sports Disciplines Institute of Physical Culture and Sports. He got his Candidate (PhD) Degree in Law in Altai StatePedagogical  University. 

Svetlana Sarsenbayeva Kubiyeva, Aktobe Regional State University named after K. Zhubanov

Ph.D. in Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports, Aktub

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