IMPROVEMENT OF PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF STUDENTS THROUGH PHYSICAL AND HEALTHY ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article considers the system of physical and healthy activity aimed at the formation of physical qualities of students of higher education institutions. The main attention is paid to the study of physical fitness, motor activity and the formation of motivation to a healthy lifestyle as an important scientific, educational and social relevance at the current stage of development of physical education.

The purpose of the work is to theoretically substantiate and experimentally verify the influence of physical and healthy activity of students on indicators of the development of physical qualities during study at a higher education institution.

The methodology of scientific research on the state of physical fitness of students was carried out on the basis of the analysis of its structural components (endurance, strength, speed, flexibility, agility and coordination). The study used such general scientific methods as analysis of literary sources, observation, conversation, questionnaires, and methods of mathematical statistics. The research was conducted at Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, and Polissya National University in 2023–2024. 347 first- and second-year students (143 men, 204 women) from various faculties participated in the research.

Scientific novelty. It has been established that the modern system of physical education and initial military training, which is a cycle of disciplines of physical education departments, cannot solve the problem of physical fitness of students of higher education institutions. There should be cardinal changes at the state level in the system of physical education of schoolchildren and student youth.

Conclusions. Purposeful, systematic, and well-organized work to involve applicants in physical and healthy activity outside of school hours should become the basis for a high level of development of physical qualities.