The Impact of Exercise Interventions on Motor Competence and Health in Children
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 388
Editors
Interests: physical activity; movement assessment; motor competence; interventions; children and adolescents
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Interests: physical activity; movement assessment; motor competence; interventions; children and adolescents
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of motor competence is essential in enabling individuals to engage in health-enhancing physical activity, promoting academic achievement and positive mental well-being. However, children’s competence in motor tasks is suggested to be below normative standards, resulting in developmental delay and other negative consequences for children. Exercise and physical activity interventions are commonly employed as a means to improve children’s motor competence, whilst also having other favourable impacts on health and well-being.
This Special Issue invites contributions from across the spectrum of health, sport and exercise, social and life sciences, examining the issues of exercise interventions and their effects on motor competence and physiology in children physical activity, exercise and obesity in children.
This Special Issue is open to original research, review articles, short reports, brief commentaries, case reports, and meta-analyses related to physical activity and exercise interventions on motor competence and related health and related variables. The keywords listed below suggest just a few of the many possibilities.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal association of motor competence, physical activity, fitness and related health variables during childhood;
- Environmental, sociocultural, and biological correlates of physical activity and motor competence during childhood;
- Interaction of physical activity, motor competence, obesity, and health markers during childhood and adolescence;
- Intervention strategies targeting physical activity and motor competence during childhood;
- Process evaluation of interventions designed to enhance physical activity and motor competence during childhood;
- Association of motor competence and physical fitness at young ages with lifestyle habits later in life;
- Measurement issues related to physical activity, exercise and motor competence from infancy through to adolescence.
Prof. Dr. Michael Duncan
Dr. Matteo Crotti
Dr. Hannah Goss
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- motor skills
- physical activity
- exercise
- fitness
- measurement
- intervention
- process evaluation
- imple-mentation
- public health
- physical activity promotion
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