Training in Sports

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Coordination is the ability to repeatedly execute a sequence of movements smoothly and accurately. This may involve the senses, muscular contractions and joint movements. Everything that we participate in requires the ability to coordinate our limbs to achieve a successful outcome – from walking to the more complex movements of athletic events like the pole vault.

Basic coordination abilities:

Adaptive ability: Adaptive ability enables modifications of motor activity on the basis of comparison or anticipation of new or changing conditions during performing the motor activity.

Balance ability: Balance ability is understood as an ability to keep body or its parts in a relatively stable position.

Combinatory ability: Combinatory ability is understood as an ability to simultaneously put partial movements together into more complex movement structures.

Orientation ability: Orientation ability is an ability to realize the position of the body or its parts in space and time.

Rhythm ability: Rhythm ability enables to grasp and meteorically express rhythm which is externally determined or contained in the motor activity itself.