The impact of dance-aerobics training on the morpho-motor status in female high-schoolers.

The aim of the study was to analyze the impact of special programmed physical education including dance, aerobics and rhythmic gymnastics on the development of motor and functional abilities and morphological characteristics of female fourth-grade high-schoolers in Zagreb. A total sample of 220 high-schoolers aged 16-18 years were divided into two groups: experimental group of 115 students attending the program composed of dance structures and aerobics, and control group of 105 students attending classic program of physical education. A set of 3 morphological variables, 6 motor variables and one functional variable were applied in both groups on three occasions during an academic year (initial, transient and final measurements).

The mobility capabilities of persons with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Study Design: An analysis of differences among healthy elementary school children and those with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), and between groups of individuals with AIS with different Cobb angles.

Objectives: To research the differences in dynamic balance among adolescents with a variety of postural statuses and verify the sensitivity value of the Cobb angle.

Summary Of Background Data: Assuming the biomechanical and functional particularities of the children with AIS, there is a need for an earlier diagnosis.

The mechanisms of morphological-motor functioning in elementary school female first- to fourth-graders.

Four morphological and 7 motor variables were assessed in a sample of 2,235 female children (subdivided into 4 groups) aged 7-11 years, elementary school first- to fourth-graders from the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Republic of Croatia. The study objective was to analyze the morphological-motor structures according to age. Factor analysis was done for each of the four subject groups.

Non-linear relations between selected anthropological predictors and psycho-physiological exercise-responses.

In this paper, some very useful non-linear-relation procedures are actualized. The authors have defined the characteristic correlations between a set of anthropological characteristics (14 anthropometric and 14 motor-endurance status variables) and a set of psycho-physiological exercise-responses during the hi-lo and during the step aerobic dance training (heart rate, lactate concentration and rating of the perceived exertion). 60 healthy females served as the sample of subjects (mean age 21 +/- 1.