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ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2026

Ideomotor representation, motor control, and body aesthetics in juvenile rhythmic gymnasts: between reciprocal support and differentiated trajectories within a personalized training program.

R M Ciorășteanu, R Mijaica, L Balint

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Article in Frontiers in sports and active living, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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R M Ciorășteanu *Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, Transilvania University of Brașov, Brașov, Romania.
R Mijaica *Department of Physical Education and Special Motricity, Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports, Transilvania University of Brașov, Brașov, Romania.
L Balint *Department of Physical Education and Special Motricity, Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports, Transilvania University of Brașov, Brașov, Romania.

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Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a personalized integrative training program on ideomotor representation, motor control estimated through whole-routine performance, and body aesthetics in juvenile rhythmic gymnasts, as well as to examine short-term transfer to competitive performance. Methods: The study used a pre-post intervention design and included 9 competitive rhythmic gymnasts aged 8-11 years who followed, for 14 weeks, a program integrated into their regular training. The assessment included whole-routine performance, used as an operational expression of motor control, computerized video analysis, the Movement Imagery Questionnaire-3 (MIQ-3), and the Evaluation of Body Aesthetics in Sports (EBAS). Results: All athletes showed increases in total whole-routine score, with the group mean rising from 16.06 ± 1.10 to 17.26 ± 1.00 points, while the mean difficulty realization rate increased from 64.66% to 72.82%. At the inferential level, ideomotor representation was the only variable that showed a statistically significant change between T0 and T2 (Z = -2.25, Conclusion: Ideomotor representation was the dimension most responsive to the intervention and may provide a useful reference point for optimizing performance organization in juvenile rhythmic gymnasts, even though the relationships among ideomotor representation, motor control, and body aesthetics remain unevenly consolidated in the short term and transfer to competitive performance is expressed differentially.

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body aestheticscompetitive performanceideomotor representationintegrative trainingjuvenile rhythmic gymnasticsmotor control

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