“…Recent studies have found the persistent health deterioration trend in the student communities in Russia (Bal'sevich, 2010), and it is natural that a special emphasis is now made on the young people's physical activity encouragement initiatives (Lubysheva, 2012) viewed by researchers and analysts as pivotal for the health protection and improvement; non-medical disease prevention (Garkusha, 2014;Skead & Rogers, 2016); muscular imbalance correction (Aftimichuk & Varvarich, 2013;Nosko, Razumeyko, Iermakov, & Yermakova, 2016); body adaptability increasing (Vitun, 2009;Kolokoltsev, Buykova, & Bulnaeva, 2017); and life prolongation (Blair, Cheng, & Holder, 2001; initiatives. Students have long been ranked on top of the health risk groups vulnerable to many diseases due to high academic loads and associated neuro-psychic stresses (Abdullina, 2014;Lebedinsky, & Kolokol'tsev, 2016); physical inactivity (Prosvirina, Kolokoltsev, Kolchanova, Cieslicka, & Stankiewicz, 2015); and poor if any motivations for healthy lifestyles (Hortigüela-Alcalá, Pérez-Pueyo, & Moncada-Jiménez, 2015;Gavrilik, 2016). Lately researchers have given a growing priority to the initiatives to engage students in regular physical training sessions (Lakhtin, 2011); build up due health culture starting at least from the school period (Yermakova, 2015); and encourage the young people's interest in all forms of physical activity (Dupont, Carlier, Gгrard, & Delens, 2009;Arziutov, Iermakov, Bartik, Nosko, & Cynarski, 2016) viewed as an integral component of a healthy lifestyle (Osipov, Fedorova, Kochetkova, & Loginov, 2017).…”