Differentiation of physical exercises of female students in health fitness classes taking into account indicators of mobile age

Abstract

Health fitness classes remain in demand in the process of physical education of female students of the Higher Education Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. In the context of the problematic situation regarding the lack of physical activity, health fitness classes provide an opportunity for female students to maintain an optimal level of physical health based on the differentiation of physical loads taking in to account the indicators of their motor age.

The purpose of the study is to determine and experimentally verify the effectiveness of fitness classes with female students of different motor ages based on the differentiation of physical exertion.

Research material and methods. To achieve the goal, the following research methods were used: analysis and generalization of data from scientific and methodical literature and the global network «Internet»; calculation methods for determining motor age; instrumental methods; pedagogical testing, methods of mathematical statistics. The contingent of the study is 40 female students of the I, II and III years medical faculties of Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University.

The results. An experimental program of health fitness classes was developed and tested, taking in to account a differentiated approach to the dosage of physical activity for female students of different motor ages. A rational combination of means of development of motor qualities was revealed: strength endurance – 15,9 %, dynamic strength – 12,9 %, speed-power endurance – 8,7 %, static endurance – 17,9 %, flexibility – 12,7 %, speed – 14,7 % and coordination abilities – 17,3 %. The study revealed a moderate negative correlation between indicators of motor age and the level of physical health (r = ‒0,7, at p < 0.01). Three levels of motor age have been identified based on physical health. The first level corresponds to optimal physical health: a motor age deviation from the chronological age of 0 to 11 years is characteristic of a "safe" motor age level, which includes female students with very high and high levels of physical health. Female students whose motor age is more than 12 ± 1 years older than their chronological age fall into the "borderline" zone and have an average (second) level of physical health. If the motor age exceeds the chronological age by 13 years or more, the body is in the "dangerous" zone—classified as the third level.

Conclusions. Taking in to account the motor age of female students during health fitness classes ensures an optimal level of motor activity and increases the level of physical fitness.