THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONDITIONAL MOTOR SKILLS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL BOYS BY MEANS OF FOOTBALL-SPECIFIC EXERCISES DURING THE PE CLASS

Achieving the general and the specific competences from the current school curricula, as well as the operational objectives specific to each subject, requires the teacher to select or design the most efficient activities/exercises so that, on the one hand, the planned objectives are accomplished and, on the other hand, the proposed activity is attractive for the students, in order to increase the level of active participation in the PE classes.

The physical fitness of students during puberty represents a process that requires a lot of attention in choosing the methods used and, especially in their dosing, mainly because of the major transformations that occur from a motor, somatic, functional, cognitive, emotional and social point of view. Students are most often than not very enthusiastic about the use of sports games during the PE class, attitude which contrasts with their reluctance when it comes to athletics, gymnastics, different types of jumps or other classical exercises, used by the established methodology.

The aim of the present paper is to experimentally check which will be the non-thematic and thematic instances from the classical structure of the PE lesson with the help of which, planning and working exclusively with technical structures and with football-specific exercises, we may obtain favourable results on the other components of the curriculum, especially on the conditional motor skills – speed, power, endurance and their combinations – whose indicators essentially reflect the students’ general physical fitness.

Thus, a series of prerequisites are created in order to improve the teaching process and to find attractive solutions so that the students’ level of involvement can be increased at times during the PE class that are considered to be of low interest or too demanding.