The Relationship of Muscular Strength to Motor Coordination in the Adolescent Period

to the motor coordination of the individual boy and girl, which has served to establish interrelationships between traits pertaining to personal and social adjustment. (2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17) Through a program of scien tifically testing and measuring in physical education, it has been possible to analyze neuro-muscular control through tests of skills. Skills by them selves are the outward and complicated expression of motor coordination as of any one period in the life of the individual. Skill tests, when used to measure fundamental movements of walking, running, jumping, climbing, dodging, swimming, handling simple tools, and using pieces of equipment, represent measurement of processes vital to life.