Younger Children's Physical Fitness, Motor Ability and Physical Activity
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Children's Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 18415
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physical activity and behavioral modification; childhood obesity intervention
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Interests: physical activity; physical fitness; health promotion
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Recently, physical health, and in particular the childhood obesity of preschoolers, has bacome a worrying problem. Early childhood is a critical period for human growth and healthy lifestyle development. Additionally, early childhood is the stage for the formation of various basic motor abilities and skills. Among the daily physical activities (PA) and movements used by adolescents and adults, 80% to 90% are acquired in early childhood. Early childhood lays a solid foundation for the future learning of complex motor skills, so that children have a lot of choice in exercise and sports.
Physical fitness, motor ability development, and PA are closely related to each other from early childhood to adulthood. In the dynamic correlation between PA and motor skill development level, physical fitness may be a vital intermediary factor that cannot be ignored. This correlation may be relatively weak in the early life of an individual, but it will grow with age. On the other hand, childhood PA is a crucial determinant of the development of motor skills and physical fitness level. Obtaining and accumulating all kinds of exploratory sports experience in early life can promote formation and maturity of children’s basic motor pattern, further inspire children to participate in PA, and have a positive effect on physical fitness levels. Investigation in PA, physical fitness, and motor development as well as its complex correlation with age will have significant and long-term influence on promoting children’s and adolescents’ PA, obesity intervention, and health promotion.
To provide better guidelines for the health promotion and intervention study on childhood obesity, studies on kindergarten children’s PA, physical fitness, and motor ability are imperative to produce a more evidence-based foundation to tackle the challenges and bridge the missing links in this research area. Research based on prospective longitudinal studies, random controlled trials, meta-analyses, intervention methods, and the application of these methods on this topic are invited for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Patrick W.C. Lau
Dr. Jingjing Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Kindergarten children physical fitness
- Kindergarten children motor ability
- Kindergarten children physical activity
- Younger children’s early physical development
- Younger children’s health
- Younger children’s motor development
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