Study Regarding the Development of Strength During Online Physical Education Classes With 8th Grade Students

Abstract

"Strength is the ability of the human body to overcome internal or external resistance (Dragnea, A., 2006). Strength motor quality plays an important role in streamlining the instructional-educational process (Ardelean, T., 1981). Strength is one of the most important qualities that the human body has and the one that has a special role in ensuring the basis for the development of other motor qualities (Dragnea, A., 2006). Materials and methods: This study is a research about the development of strength in the online environment in the 8th grade school children. The students that have taken part in the study were between the age of 13 and 15, studying at the Vaida Voievod middle school in Cluj-Napoca. The students were selected from two different study groups, which ranged between 27 to 30 pupils. I’ve been analyzing their physical development, throughout our trainings which took place twice a week, and two hours of physical education, which contained specific exercises. The testing took place at two stages. The initial testing (T.1) took place in November 2020, while the second (T2) was done in May 2021, both consisting of muscle development, pull ups (30 sec), push-ups (30 sec), squats (30 sec), hip thrusts (30sec). Results: for each test, I’ve calculated the arithmetic mean. For each test or control test we calculated the arithmetic mean and the standard deviation. I will further present the value of the arithmetic mean for the pull ups test (30 ‘‘): T1-11.33, T2-15.2. Next I will present the result of the arithmetic mean for the push-ups test (30 ‘‘): t1-15.46, t2-20.33. Arithmetic mean for hip thrusts test (30 ‘‘): t1-20,73 t2-23,13. Arithmetic mean for the squats test (30”): t1-26.46 t2-29.06. Conclusions: Following this study we can say that we came to the conclusion that there are more students who approached the scales given in the specialized books. These students were very receptive to the exercises we proposed through the online classes. Keywords: increasing strength, exercises, middle school children "