PHYSICAL AND FUNCTIONAL PREPAREDNESS OF 8-9-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLCHILDREN UNDER THE "WAY TO HEALTH" PROGRAM
At present primary schoolchildren are not investigated enough. Mainly the investigation takes place at the level of studying the state of children's health, and specifically at the level of physical fitness in the form of test indicators defining the state of physical qualities in PE (physical education) classes. Although in recent years the workload in primary classes has been increased due to additional subjects and tasks, respectively, physical activity has been sharply decreased during the daytime, which in turn has affected on the state of the body in whole. Studying the level of health state of children aged 8-9 is one of the priorities of our state. Most of the children have pathological changes in their organisms at a young age; and when they go from preschool to primary school, they are simply exempted from PE classes. Our state is interested in the opposite as over the past decade an additional PE class has been added. All these factors explicitly determine the active scientific search for effective means and methods that contribute to improving the process of not only mental development, but also qualitative physical and functional development, thereby extirpating the factors that can be corrected by physical exercise at primary school age.