SPEED OPTIMIZATION IN CHILDREN AGED 14 TO 15, WHO PRACTICE THE FOOTBALL GAME

Abstract

The experiment consisted in elaborating and applying a set of means for the speed development, in
the experiment group, between June 15th 2007 and June 15th 2008. More precisely, at the training sessions
performed during this period, in the group of children aged 14 to 15, at the “Pajura” SSC no. 1, an interval of
15 to 20 minutes/ workout was allotted to the general and specific speed development. It is to mention that
the means used by us were correlated with the period we were in (the preparatory, pre-competition,
competition and transition periods).
In the control group, the number of training sessions and their duration were almost identical with those in
the experiment group, but, in this latter, the speed development wasn’t given a particular attention, by keeping to the
initial schedule proposed by the coach. Generally, the experimental application of the speed training methodology to
children aged 14-15, who practice the football game, through a set of means conceived for the speed education,
determined the obtaining of an increased efficiency of the experimental actions.