Abstract.Purpose: significant increase of students' physical condition and health level at the account of application of modern power cardio training methodic. Material: 120 students (60 boys and 60 girls) participated in the research. The age of the tested was 19 years. The research took one year. We used methodic of power and functional impact on trainees' organism (HOT IRON). Such methodic is some systems of physical exercises with weights (mini-barbells), to be fulfilled under accompaniment of specially selected music. Results: we showed advantages of power-cardio and fitness trainings in students' health improvement and in elimination obesity. Control tests showed experimental group students achieved confidently higher physical indicators. Boys demonstrated increase of physical strength and general endurance indicators. Girls had confidently better indicators of physical strength, flexibility and general endurance. Increase of control group students' body mass can be explained by students' insufficient physical activity at trainings, conducted as per traditional program. Conclusions: students' trainings by power-cardio methodic with application HOT IRON exercises facilitate development the following physical qualities: strength and endurance in boys and strength, flexibility and endurance in girls. Besides, it was found that such systems of exercises facilitate normalization of boys' body mass and correction of girls' constitution.

Actually, the studies indicate a negative decline dynamics of the main indicators of the physical development and health of the modern young people receiving higher education. In our studies, it was found that the existing physical training programs are not able to provide the optimal level of functional readiness of the military students and officers of the military universities as needed to perform the professional tasks. Moreover, the purpose of research is the search for the optimal training effects aimed at increasing the military students' level of physical and functional training at the universities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The participants of the research were the young men (17-18 years old) and they were the cadets of the 1st course of a higher education institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (n=28). All cadets had no medical contraindications and had similar indicators of the physical development. The duration of the study-5 weeks. During this time, the cadets of the experimental group were using the burpee exercises during the physical training classes. It should be noted that the method of using burpee included a systematic reduction in the intervals of recovery time between the exercises. Fortunately, to assess indicators dynamics of the young men, the tests were used that characterize the physical fitness level of the young people. The data statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney U-test. The test results show a significant (P<0,05) advantage of the development level of the strength, speed-strength and functional abilities among the cadets of the experimental group. Indeed, it was revealed that the method of optimal training effects proposed by the authors contributes to a reliable (P<0,05) increase of some indicators of the physical development level of the young people in a relatively short (4-5 weeks) time interval.

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Purpose : a significant increase in the level of everyday motor activity of students. It is intended to use the collection and exchange of data on the daily mobility of students in popular online networks and mobile applications. Identify the prospects for using social networks and mobile applications in the control and management of the body weight of students. Material : The study involved students (n = 30, age 19-20 years). Admission to the group occurred by sending out invitations to social networks. The main criteria for selecting female students are the same age and absence of diseases. Also taken into account the indicators of the body weight of female students. It was used the following methods for assessing the level of physical condition of female students: control over the body weight (weighing), time parameters of recovery of the body after performing a test load (sample with 30 sit-ups). To evaluate the results of the studies, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used. Results : multidirectional dynamics of changes in body weight data was detected among female students. In the control group, there was a slight increase in body weight. In the experimental group, a significant decrease in body weight was found. The recovery time significantly decreased by an average of 7±1 seconds (experimental group) and by 2±1 seconds (control group). The volume of daily motor activity of female students of both groups significantly increased. The students of the experimental group have higher rates of motor activity. Conclusions : the possibilities of using social networks and mobile applications are shown to increase the daily motor activity of students and the possibility of correcting body weight.

Abstract. Purpose: to determine effectiveness of different physical culture trainings for development of students' healthy life style personality components. Material: 1 st -3 rd year students, trained at physical culture lessons, participated in the research. All students related to main health group (students, having no health problems). In total 803 students participated in the research. The testing was conducted in periods from 2001 to 2005 and from 2010 to 2015. Results: positive changes of different personality's component of healthy life style were observed. Parameters of emotional stability and tolerance were found. Teaching in last years develops personality's components to less extent. The highest changes were determined in 3 rd year students, independent on the program of their training. We did not find differences in degree of trainings' influence of specialized and typical classes. Conclusions: at trainings it is necessary to pay more attention to development personality's components of healthy life style, especially emotional stability and tolerance in respect to other people.

Background and Study Aim. Physical activity (PA) is regarded as a critical component of a healthy lifestyle and disease prevention. Different constraints placed upon social interaction and public spaces due to COVID-19 could decrease PA and academic performance in physical education (PE) in student population. The purpose of the research was to assess overall and sport/fitness PA level and academic performance in PE in a sample of university students pre- to post-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Material and Methods. Participants (n=209) – university students (19-20 years old). The overall period of the research is September-December 2020. All participants (male–n=106 and female–n=103) were divided into approximately equal groups: humanities students (male–MG-1, female–FG-1), medicine students (male–MG-2, female–FG-2), technical students (male–MG-3, female–FG-3). The main research tools: modified student self-reported questionnaire (on the base of IPAQ), academic grading (scores for self-completed PE tasks). In surveys, all participants self-rated overall and sport/fitness PA level pre- to post-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes. The participants had to complete 32 special PE tasks, during the research period. PE teachers rated participants by a special grading scale. Results. For the male and female students’ groups there were no significant differences of overall PA, sport/fitness PA level and academic performance in PE pre-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes. All participants significantly (p≤0.05) decreased overall PA, sport/fitness PA level and academic performance in PE post-cancellation. There was a significant (p≤0.05) large amount of overall PA level in MG-2 students and sport/fitness PA level in MG-1 students’ post-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes. For the male students there were no significant differences of grading in PE pre- to post-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes between participants groups. There was a significant (p≤0.05) large amount of overall PA level post-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes in FG-2 students. There was a significantly (p≤0.05) lower amount of sport/fitness PA level post-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes in FG-3 students. There was a significant drop in mean grading scores in PE post-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes in students. FG-2 participants had significantly (p≤0.05) higher grading scores in PE post-cancellation of face-to-face PE classes. Conclusions. The universities closure and cancellation of face-to-face PE classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic decreased overall PA, sport/fitness PA level and academic performance in PE in all participants. It is important to note that the proportional decrease in overall PA for the male students was actually large, then decrease in overall PA for the female students was less. The findings highlight the need for active interventions of PA promotion targeted at the student population in the context of self-isolation measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This paper considers some of the most acute issues in the field of physical education of students of the Russian Federation and the countries of North America. Analysis of publications of Russian and foreign scientists revealed the following problems: a low level of physical health of young people entering universities; insufficient logistics base; absence of a unified assessment system of students' physical fitness; significant differences in the curriculum. The purpose of the research is to find the most effective forms of organizing physical education training sessions taking into account all these negative factors. The authors conducted a comparative study with two groups of the first year students: one group (students from Siberian Federal University -SibFU) participated in sports specialization program; the second group (students from Krasnoyarsk State Medical University -KrasSMU) was trained according to an individualized program of physical education. At the beginning of the academic year, the fitness test results showed that SibFU students outperformed (P < 0,05) KrasSMU students. At the end of this academic year the tests indicated a slight increase in the development of basic physical skills and functional vigour of SibFU students. KrasSMU students' level of development of physical skills and functional vigour rose significantly (P <0,05 and P <0,01) during this academic year. Thus the results of the experiment show that an individualized program of physical education is more productive for conducting training sessions during the first year of studies.

Purpose:to analyze dynamic of physical condition, considering sex (females) and age of the tested, living in region with unfavorable ecology. Material:we studied pre school age girls (n=1580, age 4-7 years). In the research we did not include children with chronic diseases, who were under observation. We tested schoolgirls (n=3211, age 7-17 years) and girl students (n=5827, age 17-21 years, 1-4 years of study. Girl students were divided into five age groups: from 17 to 21 years. All participants lived in conditions of Eastern Siberia (Irkutsk). This region is characterized by unfavorable ecology and climate geographic characteristics. Results:in dynamic of physical condition of pre-school girls, schoolgirls and students we marked out three substantial periods of it characteristics' changes. Age 7-8 years is critical (transition from 1st to 2nd stage). The least values of these characteristics are found in older (after 17-18 years) ages. In students we observed relative stabilization of these indicators. Conclusions:the received results shall be considered in building physical education training process in pre-school educational establishments, secondary comprehensive schools and higher educational establishments.