Childhood motor skill proficiency as a predictor of adolescent physical activity.

By Lisa M. Barnett, E. V. van Beurden, P. Morgan, L. Brooks, J. Beard. Journal of Adolescent Health, 2009

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Correlates of Gross Motor Competence in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2016, background): “For instance, higher gross motor competence attenuates the decline in PA levels throughout childhood [13], and motor competency in childhood is associated with higher levels of PA and fitness in adolescence [14, 15].”
Fundamental Movement Skills in Children and Adolescents (2010, background): “quality,([24,29,30,33,34,36,40]) 13 studies were rated as medium quality([11,20-23,25,26,28,32,35,37,39,41]) and one study was classified as low quality.”
Motor Competence and its Effect on Positive Developmental Trajectories of Health (2015, background): “Following the developmental underpinnings of this model, data from a few studies indicate that object control/manipulation skills may be more salient predictors of PA [26, 93] and HRF [48, 52, 53] in later childhood and early adolescence.”