Laterality-specific training improves mental rotation performance in young soccer players

(Lateralitätsspezifisches Training verbessert die mentale Rotationsleistung junger Fußballspieler)

This study investigates the influence of specific soccer training with the non-dominant leg on mental rotation performance of 20 adolescent soccer players between 10 and 11 years of age. While the experimental group performed soccer specific tasks only with the non-dominant foot once a week for 10 weeks, the control group absolved the same exercises with the dominant foot for the same period of time. Both groups performed a mental rotation task and shot, dribbling and ball control tests before and after the 10 week intervention. The most relevant result was that the experimental group showed a significantly larger increase in mental rotation ability than the control group.
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Schlagworte: Kind Fußball Training Lateralität Leistung Drehung Bein Wahrnehmung Gehirn Technik Bewegungskoordination
Notationen: Nachwuchssport Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften Trainingswissenschaft
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00220
Veröffentlicht in: Frontiers in Psychology
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Jahrgang: 9
Heft: 220
Seiten: 1-8
Dokumentenarten: Artikel
Sprache: Englisch
Level: hoch