Analysis of the cadets’ attitude to the body cultural values, physical training and sports

Abstract

The recent political situation did not bring any positive changes for the Russian Federation and our potential partners. Unfortunately, these negative aspects bear a negative impact on the decision-making of the anti-doping control agency WADA, which banned Russian athletes from participating in the 2020 and 2022 Olympics. Changes that take place in all areas of Russian society have a significant impact on attitudes to physical training and sports. New socio-economic, economic and other conditions as a result of scientific and technological progress have their impact on the value attitude to physical training and sports. It depends on the cycle and phase of development of a person’s life. Young people is the most mobile category of society. The level of physical culture and sports activity of modern youth largely determines the demand for physical training and sports and the effectiveness of their development in society. Therefore, it is so important to analyse the motivating forces that significantly affect both the process of engaging young people in physical culture and sports activities, and the development of the physical culture and sports movement as a whole. It is known that if people are interested in physical culture and sports activities, then it becomes for them a source of psychosomatic comfort, the state of which many researchers call “ an uplifting sense of pleasure ”. Only if participation in physical culture and sports activities is caused by internal motives based on positive emotions and interest, one can talk about the positive impact of physical exercise on personal development. In addition, the main goal of the development of Russian society in the coming years is to increase the average life expectancy of Russians to 80 years. And to do this, it is necessary to master a healthy lifestyle and motor activity for everyone at any age. Relying on these theoretical assumptions, the authors of this article sought to find out the role of motivating factors that boost the sports activity of cadets, to determine what drives them: a sense of duty or a deep interest, a vital need or a need to fulfil the standard of the curriculum and get a credit.