Аssessment of the importance of physical qualities in the military physical training of military

Abstract

Taking into account the current state of modernization of weapons, equipment, improvement of forms and methods of conducting combat operations and comprehensive provision of units of the Ukrainian forces in accordance with NATO standards (world standards), it is urgent to make changes to the existing programs of professional education of future officers, in particular, programs of special physical training. In this work, we conducted a comparative analysis of the assessment of the importance of the physical qualities of military personnel according to physical training and sports instructors and students of participants of professional development courses. 29 physical training and sports instructors and 155 participants of professional development courses of the Vasyl Vyshyvany training center of the National Guard of Ukraine participated in the study. We found that the opinions of physical training and sports instructors and participants of professional development courses were similar for almost all qualities, the differences in the priority of physical qualities were in the time of reaction to a choice, the time of a simple reaction to a visual stimulus, and the ability to maintain statistical equilibrium (р<0.05). A survey of physical training and sports instructors showed that the most important physical qualities for military personnel are the time of a simple reaction to a visual stimulus (4.59±0.74 points), the ability to maintain statistical balance (4.52±0.63 points) and coordination of movements (4.48±0.63 points). For the participants of professional development courses, coordination of movements was the most important (4.34±0.75 points), strength endurance (4.29±0.75 points), speed (4.28±0.84 points) and speed strength (4.28±0.77 points).