Vol. 3 No. 2 (2019): UNIVERSITY ARENA JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SPORT AND HEALTH

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Through this study we aimed to contribute to finding answers in regards needles cee poor physical preparation of students, early decrease their interest for sports activities and practical ways to solve them, hoping that they will contribute to improve the methodology rugby in school.
Objectives. The strategy that we propose to focus, initially, on the development of psychomotor skills through exercises diversified priority nature created and in the second phase, to proceed with acquisition actual actions technical specific tactical Rugby in accordance with the methodology described in the literature and adapted to the level of training students and didactic existing materials.
The aim of the paper is to improve the instructional-educational process in the physical education discipline, in the lyceum cycle, by creating and applying specific exercises for playing rugby for the formation and development of psychomotor skills, in accordance with the pupils' age peculiarities and the existing material conditions.
Methods. Information and bibliographic documentation, research method curriculum documents and other school documents, data investigation into the school population and schools, in high school, investigations on the basis of existing material in school for rugby school, high school, observation method, the questionnaire survey method, metota statistics.
Results. Searching and finding answers to some of the problems caused poor sports training of students, reducing some early interest in physical education, high school and practical ways to solve them through games.
Conclusion. The physical exercises applied with the experimental classes are effective and contribute to the development of psychomotor skills. By comparing the results to the experimental classes, it has been observed that advances in the development of skills are all the more positive as the attitude of the subjects towards the activity is more positive and the higher the personal significance for them.

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Complex function directly involved in the adjustment of individual behavior, psychomotricity provides the child with the optimal conditions for aquiring a system of skills designed to provide him with an effective adaptation to the growing demands of the environment in which he is active. Therefore, it is advisable to have a knowledge as thorough as possible, doubled with a clearer understanding of the main factors specific to the psychomotor phenomenon, the relationships established between them, their dynamics within the general motor component and their specific manifestation in certain environmental conditions (urban / rural).
Present as a specific objective of physical education, the development of psychomotricity ensures the completion of the acquisitions specific to the various stages of learning in the life of the child. Knowing the level of development of the psychomotor component has always been a permanent concern of the specialists in the field of physical education, because it is the basis of the elaboration of the different intervention strategies, which are specific to each educational cycle, especially to every lesson of physical education. For this reason, the return of this age stage, of crucial importance for the further development of the child, to the research domain, is a well-defined goal of this research.
Regarding the methods, 40 subjects, male and female primary school students, coming from urban and rural areas, were selected to participate in this research experiment. Using a part of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test – Second Edition, the experiment analyzed possible differences between their psychomotor development, in the balance and strength subtests.
The analysis of the results provided by this experiment allows specialists, directly involved in the educational process, to adapt it according to modern demands. Moreover, we can conclude that the use of Bruininks-Oseretsky Test - Second Edition (BOT-2), for the purpose of a thorough and complex psychomotor assessment of primary school students, is not only necessary but also advisable.
The application of the physical education program at the level of the primary education cycle, by specialized teachers, is an essential condition for the professional guidance of the educational process and creates the opportunity to start some specific researches at this stage and to make a complete and complex evaluation of the different aspects related to the psychomotor behavior of the child.

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Background. In the last years, a series of changes of methodological order were operated in the educational system in Romania, including at the level of primary school, which is considered the most important step in the multilateral development of pupils Objectives. This thing refers to all the study subjects and to a great extent also to the Physical Education, which comes to influence essentially the physical training and development of pupils. Methods. In this sense it was performed a quiz-like enquiry, which included 15 questions and they were addressed to teachers of the Physical Education, working in primary school in Romania, as well as to other groups of teaching staff, operating in sports clubs and having groups of children aged 7 to 11. Results. As a result, both in Romania, as well as in other European countries, specialists from the Physical Education field came up with several opportunities regarding the efficiency of teaching the given subject by using various modern methodologies, different from the standard ones which are currently used in the pre-university learning institutions. Conclusion. One of them would be the main use of sports games in the training process of pupils of the primary school within the school physical education. In this sense our aim is to use the football game inside various forms of training, and our interest is focussed on the specialists’ opinions on this topic about the effects of using the given game.

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Developing effective communication in physical education is a necessary ingredient for encouraging students to engage in physical activity.The purpose of this paper is to understand how to build trusting and effective relationships with students as an essential part of a support teacher's role in physical education and sport lessons. This paperwork explores ways to communicate in different situations and contexts and the importance of following procedures for confidentiality and information sharing.
Communication is one of the most important skills that a physical education teacher can possess. Clear communications to your students helps them to learn your lessons and keep them safe. Effective communication builds a sense of community where students feel confident in their abilities. With greater confidence and support, students are more likely to embrace physical activity as a source of fun. A good communication facilitate students learning and increase participation.

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Harmonization of the relationship between intellectual development and physics is done in mutual dependence and increasingly interested in multidisciplinary research, especially those with an important impact on health. The practice of physical education from the youngest age favors the development of the particularities of manifestation of the modern man's behavior and improves the quality of life.
Objectives. At the level of the primary cycle a study was carried out on the issue of strengthening the health status of students by harmonizing the motor and intellectual components and informing the decision makers about the motor and somato-functional state of the school population.
Methods. The following methods were used in the study: study of specialized literature, school documents, questionnaire method, survey method, statistical method, graphic method.
Results. Research on primary school pupils confirms the correlation between the physical, intellectual and health development components, so children with better levels of motor-based indicators have greater stability against the adverse environmental factors that are manifested by lower illness.
Conclusion. The determination of physical and intellectual skills of the group is insufficiently developed in the students of the group tested, which recommends practicing physical exercise both in physical education lessons and in extra-curricular activities.

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Background: Training based on virtual reality has already proven successful in military and aviation. Because it is a visually-kinesthetic learning aid, its utility in sports is certain. The real beauty of sports training based on virtual reality lies in its ability to create real muscle memory through virtual experiences. Sports profile is the key to developing the self-consciousness the athlete needs to develop emotional intelligence and to understand how behavior and personality influences sport performance. Establishing the sporting profile builds the self-awareness needed to achieve superior performance. Using it will develop emotional intelligence and help to understand how consistently the best results are achieved as an individual and in relation to others. Sports profiles for athletes' ratings use scientific techniques based on decades of behavioral research and are especially designed for high-performance sports (http://athleteassessments.com/disc-profiles-sport).
The face work aims to use a new, alternative method to improve children's performance at the start of athletic training. In this paper we want to demonstrate that applying the training methods appropriate to each type of personality can achieve equally good results regardless of the dominant function.
Objectives: The objective of the paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the virtual reality method for non-sensory researchers, one single child, aged 11-13 years, in improving athletic performance.
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to expose the benefits and the role of virtual training for non - sensors in optimizing athletic performances.
Methods: The methods used are two, the first is the Myers - Briggs Type Indicator - MBTY test, and in the second part we use the virtual reality method with the Oculus glasses in the athletic training.
Conclusions: The use of personality tests contributes to the efficiency of sports training, especially at the level of training athletes.
In this context, the application of psychomotor tests as modern methods that can significantly influence the quality of the training, clearly leads to the improvement of athletic performance in the level of a single child.

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Athletics is the sport that cannot be influenced by subjectivity, because the highly-advanced modern technology allows the measurement of performance with great precision. World records are increasingly rare. If over 20 years were needed to eliminate a few seconds, nowadays, performance improvement is limited to tenths or even thousands of a second, because the human body has its own biological and biomechanical laws. One of the most common journalistic expressions is that records are set to be broken. But how far can we push the physical limits of the human being? This paper is a journey back in time to highlight the most impressive world performances in the history of athletics.

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The problem of optimizing the training process of volleyball players in Romania, at every level is a quite current one and absolutely necessary in the theory and practice of this sport.
These last years, in the process of sports training, there are all the more used a series of technical and electronically machines which allow the immediate obtaining of information related to the game actions of each sportsman, of one’s own team, as well as of the other’s team. Such a software is “Data Volley”, used in the last years in our championship also. A number of technical and electronic machines
In order to highlight the most pressing issues in the male volleyball nationally, I performed a quiz-like inquiry, asking for the opinion of the specialists in the field, with regard to identifying ways to optimize the training level of the sportsmen. In this context, I asked the specialists to express their opinion in the matter of the individualized training of senior volleyball players, and of the interest of each and everyone of them as compared to the utility of the “Data Volley” software.
Thus, analysing the results of the specialists opinion in the matter of the training of senior volleyball players in Romania, there was identified a series of problems, whose solving would influence positively the increase of the quality level in their training.

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In order to improve the training process in the swimming sport, a survey was conducted in which 30 athletes (12-14 years old, boys and girls) were divided into 2 equal groups according to an official scientific sociometric test that they were given to complete, as well as similar physical fitness tests. Based on the information gathered from these two tests, the following groups were formed:
1) The experimental group, in which the work was carried out with homogeneous segments and
2) The control group in which the work was carried out with heterogeneous segments.
The control team followed the traditional way of training, where the main disadvantage was that the coach worked at the same time with all athletes, regardless of social preference and physical condition, with the result that the stimuli accepted by athletes did not bring the expected performance.
However, this is not the case with the experimental group, in which its members clearly had better personal relationships and about the same physical condition. As a consequence, the stimuli that they received daily in training were as effective for everyone. At the same time, the same tests were applied to the members of the experimental group where, according to these results, 3 subcategories were obtained, aiming at better training and best results.
At the end of the second year, our research showed that the experimental group had clearly better performances than the control group, which at the beginning of the first year of the survey had much better results. So I strongly recommend grouping as this is more effective and interesting.

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Background: The organizing of physical education with preschool children always was and still is a very actual issue which requires from the specialists to create new approaches according to contemporary social requirements. This article addresses the problem of prophylaxis of the spine deficiencies of preschool children by applying the means of physical education in various forms. Regarding this it was developed a model of the prophylaxis of the spine deficiency in preschool children, which was applied for a one-year period of their education. The recorded results demonstrate the effectiveness of applying the experimental model, which allows us to recommend it for implementation in physical education in preschool institutions.
Objective: In this context the research aim is to experimental argue the efficiency of the physical education means in preschool children spine disorders prophylaxis.
Methods: The methods used are:
1. Specialized literature analysis and generalization in what concerns physical education for preschool children;
2. Assessing the physical training and physical development levels of the preschool children in Romania;
3. Spine disorders in preschool children study;
4. Experimental argue for the efficiency of the physical exercise in preschool children spine disorders prophylaxis and recovery.
Conclusion: The scientific evidence based results demonstrate the preschool children physical education process improvement effectiveness. The practical application of the proposed experimental methodology will contribute to the motor training level increase, as well as to the spine disorders prophylaxis for 6-7 years preschool children.

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The paper lays emphasis on the importance of linking the methods of kinetic recovery techniques and the specific methods of psychological consoling, which holds the purpose of complex rehabilitation of the patient with stroke both physical /mental and emotional , lowering the negative impact of depression linked to after stroke depression.
Beginning: Stroke means a fast lost of the brain function because of the problems that occur in brains’ blood flow. The history may be either ischemic – missing the blood flow caused by a block of brain blood (thrombosis, arterial embolism). Ischemic stroke or blood stroke is a cause of a brake of blood vessel or of an average blood structure- blood stroke.
Prevalence: In Europe around 1 million deaths each year come because of stroke 20-30% of the patients die during the first month and about 75% from the survivors develop disabilities and loose their independence. In Romania 21,64% of the death caused by stroke being the second death cause and the second disability cause 11,34%.
National Statistics’ Institute believe that a growth of mortality cause by stroke to 35% until 2035 having the data that after the age of 65 the values grow 10 times and the average age of beginning is 37.

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Human body is our vehicle in this life time and it is the one that, without us noticing, is creating the perfect environment for each day. He is taking care of us being alive and experiencing every day. Our heart bits, our eyes see, our lungs breath even when we sleep or work. Our body has this amazing system that balances itself, as much as it can, when in stress or new environment. Our brain process 2000 bits data/second – as our conscious mind. Our body process 4.000.000 bits data/second – as our unconscious mind. The recent years, when high level of technology over flood our lives, a high percent of the population is experiencing a new, increasing level of stress and anxiety.
Using our brain mainly in activities that involved virtual experiences, virtual social networks and less physicality creates a huge unbalance between the conscious and unconscious, one that would result, in time, in high level of disconnection, stress, anxiety.
With the same influence is the work-related stress. Romania is one of the countries in Europe with the highest work-related stress
- 62% of the working population fear losing their jobs.

- 43% are experiencing stress related to violent work environment.
In 2017, from January to May, the Dynamic HR and Learning Network conducted a study “National Stress” revealing the fact that 99,7% of the Romanian employees suffers of burnout, stress, sadness or depression. The study was conducted on 804 employees, with ages between 26-35 years old, working in HR or Sales department. Manual therapies and physiotherapy are tools that reconnect body, mind and spirit. They help in reconnection of the conscious and unconscious mind through connecting the movements and sensitive responses of the body to the brain and mind. Active bodies, people that use movement, walks in nature and choose to exercise, as a daily routine, experience a much lower level of stress or anxiety. Through gentle manual therapies, like massage or cranio-sacral therapy, our body is assisted in reconnection to the whole communication system of our being. In therapy, the body can signal areas  of stress or which need attention or healing and could release stress and tensions. The results are seen in the health, immune system, in clarity of mind and in relaxed approach of daily life. Physiotherapy allows the body to move as a whole structure, using all muscles and joints that in virtual reality living are completely ignored and in our daily work environment are forgotten. In this, the results are seen as flexibility even in decision making, lighter breathing increasing the level of oxygen to allow the entire body to expand the communication and to adapt. 

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Starting from the premise that the young person is a person in full affirmation of his personality, multiple determined: biological, psychic and social, characterized by a set of needs, interests, ideals, etc., we consider that in their fulfillment a very important role are the perception of self-esteem as well as of the self-efficacy as important elements in self-regulation of their behaviour.
While self-efficacy aims at perceiving one's own abilities to achieve a certain goal, and self-esteem is related to the global perception of its own value, both influence both choosing the behaviors in which an individual will engage, and the resources allocated to the solving of some tasks.
Objectives. The idea of this study came from the curiosity of identifying in young first-year students, practically in the first stage of their professional career, the level of self-esteem and the perception of self-efficacy as premises for an optimal professional career development as well as the correlation between availability for physical activity and the capacity of effort and the two components of the personality highlighted above.
Methods. We used the following methods: the study of the specialized literature, the survey method based on the questionnaire - "Rosenberg Questionnaire - Self Esteem Scale" and the Self-Efficacy Scale, the statistical-mathematical method and the graphical method.
Subjects. Our study was attended by 25 students of the University of Bucharest, enrolled in the aerobics course.
Results. By applying the stated questionnaires, the level of self-esteem and self-efficacy was investigated both at the beginning of the semester and at the end of the semester after attending the contents of aerobics classes. Also, it was carried out an initial and a final assessment of the effort capacity, through the Ruffier Test.
Conclusion. We can say that, in the view of the investigated subjects, participation in aerobics lessons influenced the satisfaction of those needs that they consider important in the success of their personal, socio-professional approaches: improving self-esteem, the qualitative change of their beliefs about their ability to deal with specific situations, improving social relations, which confirms our hypothesis.

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Studying of English in higher education creates opportunities and openings to other cultures and civilizations, communication being the linguistic competence stipulated in the (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, first of all in the terms of Vizental A., 2008), assimilation of the vocabulary and complex lexical units, thus highlighting the value of phraseology (Bushnaq T. 2011).
Forming CCEL in the field of specialized lexis (sporting) is a desideratum of university pedagogy, which is not limited to updating the curriculum and the curriculum construction necessary for the complex valorization of the terminology of the field, aims at guiding the educational process of the university to the students in sports English language that creates openings on the labor market.
The opportunity to study the process of communication competences in English to Sports students is determined by the conditions of contemporary society reflected in the process of modernizing the higher education system in the context of a postmodern, informational, knowledge-based society. In this global and open, pedagogical priority is not the continuously multiplied information, cyclically acquired by subjects involved in the educational process, student-teacher, but communicative competence, which favors their adaptation in a changing environment. It plays a significant role in the assimilation, accommodation and professional integration of future sports specialists (Verdeţ, M. 2015).
The aim of the research is to develop the methodology of communication competence in English to Sports students by using the sports lexis.

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Our starting point in this paper is based on the evidence that physical education (PE) correlates with CLIL and the level of EFL knowledge is significantly increased when classes of English and PE are combined in education. This opinion refers to primary, secondary and higher education. The findings obtained through multiple experiments which were carried out with students from 11 to 25 years of age were justified in the tests and observation charts which come as a result of psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, pedagogical and medical scientific research.
CLIL – Content Language Integrated Learning is a foreign language teaching model that triggers the imagination, boosts brain, and works on making students interested in receiving and giving information based on the language content. More energy for getting involved in reasoning about problem-solving and prolonged motivation for tasks requiring brainwashing is major components of the method. A bilingual approach to teaching PE and learning a foreign language requires good initial teacher preparation.
The aim of the paper is to put stress on the advantages of a bilingual approach to teaching foreign languages and PE in correlation and to give guidelines for the additional pedagogic preparation of teachers.

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The paper reviews different types of tennis courts and how those can influence the playing style of the game. In the first section of the text, the author classifies and describes the differences between tennis courts. The most important difference is made by the surface; there are four types of surfaces, so there are four types of courts. Also, differences are made by the dimensions or by the space where the court is placed (indoor or outdoor). This text reviews each type.
Additionally, the text explores how each type influence the playing style of the game according to the equipment players are using. The author focuses on direct observation of matches played on each and every type of courts.
The paper seek to answer the question: Which are advantages and disadvantages of playing tennis on different types of courts? The author finds out that the most used type is the hart court, especially in U.S.A., even if the grass court is the fastest type of courts.
It is hopped this study will inform people that are not athletes about differences between tennis courts in case of playing this sport as a hobby.