Fitness technologies as a means of increasing motor activity and physical fitness of students of higher education

Abstract

Fitness technologies are a new social phenomenon, which consists in the regular use of various types of organized health-improving motor activity and a moderate amount of exercise by students during physical education classes or independently with the aim of restoring physical and mental capacity, preserving health and improving the quality of life. Modern programs on the use of fitness technologies in the educational process of institutions of higher education are aimed at increasing the interest of students in physical culture and involving them in systematic physical exercises, contribute to the optimization of the process, which increases the level of physical fitness of students, forms a complex of motor and personal needs and abilities, which are the basis of the individual competencies of both the acquirer and the teacher, in accordance with the requirements of educational and professional activity. As a result of the research, the fitness program “Fitness Body Strong” was developed and it was experimentally proven that the fitness program is one of the means of increasing motor activity and physical fitness of students in higher education institutions, aimed at forming the needs for physical improvement and self-improvement of students. Fitness technologies provide diversity and efficiency in the physical training of students of higher education institutions.