Psychomotor Parameters of Athletes in Aerobic Gymnastics of Age Group 1 and Age Group 2

The implementation of psychological support into a set of new training strategies is one of the main tasks in elite sport. Psychophysiological tests are widely applied in assessing the efficacy of sports training, based on the close correlation between mental and physiological processes in an athlete’s body. Despite the fact that aerobic gymnastics requires high levels of the gymnasts’ functional capacities, their physiological abilities are barely studied. The aim of the research is to explore psychomotor parameters of aerobic gymnasts aged 12–17 years and define the features of psychomotor skills in Age Group 1 (12–14 y.o.) and Age Group 2 (15–17 y.o.). Psychophysiological diagnostics of the mobility, stability, and strength of nervous processes was carried out during the off-season. Ten female athletes from AG1 and 14 female athletes from AG2 performed five psychophysiological tests via the NS Psychotest.Sport system: reaction to a moving object, simple eye-motor reaction, resistance to interference test, tapping test, and audio-motor probe. The nervous processes of all gymnasts were at a medium level of mobility, and their strength showed significant individual differences. Athletes of both age groups had balanced nervous processes. The number of accurate reactions in the reaction to a moving object tended to differ between age groups. Age Group 2 performed the tapping test with a shorter intertap interval compared to Age Group 1 (p < 0.05). Simple eye-motor reaction, resistance to interference test, and tapping test are the most informative tests for defining features of psychomotor parameters in aerobic gymnastics. All gymnasts showed good reaction time, high attention concentration, and the ability to maintain the required rhythm, while AG2 improved their sport results through increasing the accuracy and tempo of movements.