Efficiency of children's fitness training program with elements of sport dances in improving balance, strength and posture

The article presents the results of the use of sports dance classes in children's fitness training programs. The objective of the study was to test the effectiveness of the fitness training program for preschool-age children with elements of sports dance, aimed at improving their physical condition parameters. To address this objective the following research methods were used: the search for and analysis of special literature, visual analysis of the state of the biogeometric profile of posture; pedagogical methods; stabilography; and methods of mathematical statistics. The study involved 24 girls and 24 boys aged six years, whose physical development and functional status corresponded to the norms described in the literature and had no statistically significant gender differences (p>0.05) in the studied parameters. The effectiveness of the program was evaluated in a pedagogical experiment that lasted 9 months. Positive changes and statistically significant (p