OCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT, PREFERENCES AND MOTIVATION OF WOMEN IN THE SECOND PERIOD OF MATURE AGE FOR RECREATIONAL PHYSICAL CULTURE ACTIVITIES
The purpose of the study was to study the socio-demographic character, preferences and motivation of the mature age women for physical culture and recreational activities. During the poll, 177 respondents regularly engaged in the recreational physical culture in fitness clubs of Smolensk have been surveyed. It was revealed that the majority of the interviewed women are in an official or civil marriage, with one or two children, they have higher education and work in the field of the mental activity. It has been established that fitness, and aerobics are the preferred types of recreational physical culture. The priority motivations for recreational physical culture activities are health preservation and strengthening, maintenance of muscle tone, appearance improvement. The significance of individual motives is not the same for representatives of the different age subgroups.