Improving speed and strength abilities in 12–13-year-old children through basketball

The presented article raises the issue of physical education of the younger generation, which is one of the priority tasks of the modern education system in light of the implementation of the national project "Demography" and the federal project "Sport is a Norm of Life". This topic is devoted to the problem that, according to the statistics of the Russian Ministry of Sports, only 58% of schoolchildren regularly engage in physical culture and sports, while 40% of students have an insufficient level of development of basic physical qualities, in particular, speed and strength abilities. The study identified favorable physiological prerequisites necessary for adolescence (12-13 years old), which are created for the purposeful development of speed and strength abilities using basketball, which are the basis for most sports activities, and serve as the foundation for overall physical fitness for future health improvement.