Construction of an Added Physical Fitness Training Program to Enhance the Basic Skills in Speed Roller Skate for Young Athletes

Background and Aim: Speed roller skating is a global competitive sport that includes different forms of outdoor road racing and indoor track racing, and has become one of the Asian Games events. The history of this sport combines technological progress, sportsmanship, and globalization, and speed skating has become an important sport in many countries and regions. This research aimed to construct a physical training program to improve the basic skills of starting, straight skating, curved skating, and sprinting of adolescent speed roller skaters. Materials and Methods: The subjects of this study were 30 female speed roller skaters aged 6-12 years old in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, China. They were divided into experimental groups and control groups based on the test results with a systematic sampling technique. The constructed training plan program was validated with IOC at 0.91 (0.80-1.00). The experiment was a two-group pre-test and post-test design, with 15 subjects in each group. The duration was eight weeks, three days a week, with one hour a day. The experimental group trained with a constructed physical training program, while the control group continued the traditional training program. Physical fitness tests and basic skills tests were collected at the pretest and the posttest. The data within groups were analyzed with a paired t-test, and the data between groups were analyzed with an independent t-test. Results: The research results revealed that: 1) Both the experimental group and the control group improved in physical fitness and basic skills in speed roller skating after training at P< .05. 2) The experimental group had greater improvement than the control group on both physical fitness and basic skills in roller skating at p< 0.05. Conclusion: The constructed physical fitness training program could gain more improvement in physical fitness, basic skills in speed roller skate than a traditional training program.