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. 2020 Aug 10;2020:2345607. doi: 10.1155/2020/2345607

Table 2.

The ARG program contents and functions.

Fundamental movement skills Program categories Contents Functions
Uncontrolled movements Rhythmic gymnastics exercises Single rhythmic movements; combined rhythmic movements; complete rhythmic movements To develop big muscle groups, promote neural and muscular coordination, enhance the body control and displacement ability through low-impact rhythmic movements of the limbs in multiple dimensions and movements. To evoke the automatic postural control by vertical and horizontal jumps. To achieve the visual and kinesthetic stimuli and to improve the balance via combining with the auditory, tactile, visual, and vestibular stimuli
Controlled movements Rhythmic movement with small apparatus Ball, hoop, elastic band exercises Through the completion of different forms of apparatus control movements: throwing, catching, racking, and rolling the ball and the tension of elastic band, to develop control of small muscles, to improve the orientation and neural sensitivity and to train the sensory ability
Locomotor skills Rhythmic exercises on mats Crawl, roll, rotate, tumble without passing through the cervical vertebra Through crawling, rolling, and turning in different forms and directions, to promote the development of neural organs, to enhance the perception, to improve the ability of coordination and exertion of the whole body, and to increase the trunk muscle strength
Uncontrolled movements Functional training exercises Strength, aerobic, flexibility, agility; body coordination exercise Enhance the physical fitness and acquire various technical motors skillfully through repeated muscle strength exercises, stretch exercise, and core power training exercise