Assessment and Analysis of the Current State of Physical Fitness of Primary School Children
The article is devoted to the problem of choosing modern means and methods of physical education of children of primary school age. The purpose of the study is to study and analyze the level of their physical fitness. Based on the selection of special tests, assessment of level of physical preparedness of schoolboys of Nizhny Novgorod was made; the results were analyzed and recommendations for the choice of means and methods of physical fitness to improve the efficiency of the educational process were given. It is revealed that the age period from 8 to 10 years in schoolchildren is characterized by an intensive increase in indicators that characterize the development of such physical qualities as strength, speed, agility and endurance in various testing exercises. The level of development of physical qualities clearly shows sexual differences.