The endurance ability level of elementary school students in Banská Bystrica

Abstract

Nowadays it is so common to decrease general training in all sports. Although it is not bringing success, sports are fighting each other for attracting as many as kids for their field. Then we are often meeting the mistake of early specialization due to results oriented parents, coaches etc. The endurance abilities are one of the general abilities of all people. General endurance is creating a prerequisite for good aerobic abilities, which we can use in every single sport activity. Actually people in Banská Bystrica are more and more interested in running so naturaly endurance is one of the key factor that they should concentrate about. Čillík et al. (2015) were testing endurance abilities of childs. In our research we were examinating endurance abilities of early childhood students in Banská Bystrica. The sample were created from purposely choosed respondents (n= 240, boys= 124, girls= 116). There were significant differences between all classes of elementary schools. (p < 0,01). Significant differences were found between first and third grade, then between first and fourth grade as well independently on gender.