Assessment of Health and Physical Fitness of Students by the Results of the Exercises of the "Ready for Labor and Defense" Programme

Abstract

By the decree of the Russian President from 3/24/2014 No. 172 "About All-Russian physical culture training and sporting programme "Ready for Labor and Defense" it was declared about the revival in Russia of the "Ready for Labor and Defense" programme directed to promoting sport and increase of a number of citizens, leading an active and healthy lifestyle. The purpose of the present research is a comparative analysis of physical fitness of students according to the results of the exercises done from the programme "Ready for Labor and Defense". The authors also tried to state the dependence of quality of doing the exercises from morphological indicators and the health level of young men and girls. The research included 314 students of 18-20 year of age, mostly engaged in main preparatory sports groups. The received results demonstrate influence of health level and adaptation opportunities on quality of performing the exercises of the "Ready for Labor and Defense" programme in which such physical qualities as strength, endurance and speed are tested. Such physical qualities as flexibility and coordination depend on morphological features of a body (length of a body and a constitution type) more than on health level. Involving students in performing the exercises from programme "Ready for Labor and Defense", they have a need for increase in physical activity for improvement of the physical shape that makes a positive impact on a state of health.