Youth Fitness: Basic Movement Skills

Youth Fitness: Basic Movement
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Basic movements are fundamental skills that children aged three to six need to learn. These skills, which involve the use of feet, legs, head, arms, hands, and trunk, are crucial to master as they lay the foundation for complex and specialized skills necessary for a lifetime. These fundamental movement skills are in the following three categories.
Balance skills are the first category. According to Anne Lindsay, these skills refer to movements and activities that necessitate a child’s body to remain stationary while also moving horizontally or vertically (Lindsay & Byington, 2020). The activities include bending, swinging, stretching, twisting, spinning, and standing on one foot. Mastering balancing skills is paramount as it helps them control their bodies and improve their strength and posture.
Locomotion skills are another basic movement important to children. These involve children learning to move from one place to another in different ways, such as walking, running, crawling, skipping, marching, sliding, leaping, jumping, hopping, and steppi...