Features of peronality and physical development in children at the stage of early sports specialization

Problem and purpose. The article analyzes and formulates the essential contradictions between the presence of significant age-sex and individual-typological differences among young athletes, on the one hand, and insufficient development of theoretical and methodological issues of individualization of the training process at the stage of initial sports specialization, on the other. This contradiction hinders purposeful scientifically grounded work with sports reserves and inhibits disclosure of creative potential of young sportsmen and development of their personality. The purpose of this article is to study the pedagogical conditions of individualization of training process of young athletes in their early teenage years at the stage of initial sports specialization. The research methodology consists of modern pedagogical, physiological and psychological concepts that reveal the leading role of activities in the pedagogical process of teaching and upbringing children. Results. The substantiation of the content of educational work in the process of training young athletes of younger adolescence at the stage of initial sports specialization is stated in the article. Motor, anatomical, physiological and psychological features of younger teenagers are analyzed. These materials are important for the development of the theory and methodology of physical education and sports training, as well as for the theory and methodology of youth sports. Conclusion. The totality of the provisions and derivations obtained in the course of writing the article can be used in the work aimed at increasing the efficiency of a professional physical training pedagogue working with children. The conclusions and recommendations obtained in the study can be included in the content of special courses for students of academies, institutes and colleges of physical culture, faculties of sports training in pedagogical institutes as well as for faculties of advanced training and physical education staff retraining.