The importance of physical training in today's conditions and maintaining high combat readiness is always closely related to the nature and method of warfare, which is also determined by the available military means. It is known that the main purpose of physical training is to ensure the physical readiness of servicemen to perform military professional tasks that arise in the process of military training and education.
The problem of preparing cadets for military professional activities does not decrease over time, but rather becomes more urgent, and today its importance is quite high. The study of the combat capability of servicemen of various branches of the armed forces using physical training means is the subject of close attention of many researchers, not excluding the readiness to perform combat missions by specialists of engineering troops. However, the existing means and methods of physical training of engineering troops do not always and not fully solve the problem of training military personnel to perform assigned tasks.
Therefore, there is a need to analyze and substantiate the most effective means and methods, which in turn are a special feature of the key to the successful performance of assigned tasks by specialists of engineering troops.