Abstract
This study aims to investigate the effects of 8-week football training on selected physical fitness elements and fine motor skills in 11-13-year-old children. Among the children who participated in the study, the children playing football in Marmarisspor formed the experimental group (n: 30), and the children studying at Salih Zeki Gur Secondary School formed the control group (n: 30). In total, 60 volunteer children participated in the study. The experimental method is applied in this study. Football training was applied to the participating group for 8 weeks, 3 days a week, and 50-60 minutes, and no exercise was applied to the control group. Statistical analysis of the data obtained from the research was done in the SPPS (version 16.0) package program. After examining the normality distribution of pre - test and post - test values of experiment and control groups with the Shapiro-Wilk test, paired t-test was used to compare the averages. The significance level was accepted as p 0, 05); there was a significant difference between body weight and flexibility features (p <0.05). It has been observed that 8-week football training positively affects body weight, body mass index, flexibility, handgrip strength, balance, fine motor skill, 30-meter sprint, and aerobic capacity (ml/kg/min). Article visualizations:
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