The effect of therabant exercises on motoric abilities in gymnasts of 8-12 years

In this research, it is aimed to investigate "the effect of theraband exercises on the motor skills of 8-12 years old gymnasts". The universe of the research was created with the voluntary participation of 21 girls aged 8-12, who did not have any disability, who did regular gymnastics. Necessary permissions were obtained before the research. A nutritional questionnaire was applied to determine the nutritional habits of the children. The study group consisted of 21 randomly selected children, 11 girls in the theraband exercise application (TEG) group and 10 girls in the control group (KG). Theraband exercises were applied to the theraband exercise group for 45 minutes 3 days a week for 6 weeks. Physical measurements (height, weight, body mass index) and motoric tests (vertical jump, flexibility, strength, balance, 20 m speed) were applied to both groups before and after the study.The significance level was determined as p = 0.05 in the research SPSS 25 package program. Descriptive statistics are given as mean, standard deviation, percentage and frequency. In the research, data analysis Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test was applied. Due to the fact that the data distribution did not show normality (p <0.05), among the non-parametric tests; Intergroup evaluations were analyzed using Mann Whitney U test, and in-group pre-post test measures were analyzed using Wilcoxon sign test.Questionnaire analyzes were determined by frequency distributions. As a result of the research, there was no significant difference between the pretest, theraband exercises application group and the control group (p> 0.05), only the vertical jump value was different (p <0.05).However, significant differences were observed between the flexibility, right and left balance, vertical jump, back strength pre-test and post-test values of the theraband exercise group (p <0.05 p <0.01).In the control group, only the left foot balance values pre-test post-test values differed (p <0.05), while the other values did not differ. (P> 0.05) As a result, theraband exercise practices were found to be effective on motor abilities. For this reason, we recommend theraband exercises to be used in training for the development of motor abilities. Keywords: Resistance exercises, balance, splash, force, flexibility