THE BODY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF MOVEMENT EDUCATION

Sports training is a human and social action in an educational relational space that affects human growth and formation. It is defined by many scholars as a pedagogical process (Verchošankij, 1987), which requires a specific organization to carry out «a systematic, complex and global action on the personality and physical state of an individual» (Verchošankij, 1987, p. 9). The explicit purpose of this process and of the methodical, scientific and systematic actions employed is, according to Teodorescu (1981) to lead to the «development and formation of the player’s personality, considered individually and integrated into the team» (p.27). The athlete-player is considered, says Teodorescu, «under the aspect of his physical and sporting development, in view of the realization of a maximum performance capacity». The aim of this paper is therefore to highlight how a multilateral training of the person, physical/functional, motor, psychological, cognitive, can ensure the achievement of optimal sports performance.