New institutional and practical system for students'' integrated physical fitness rating
The article presents a draft integrated rating system designed to assess the students' physical fitness for the GTO Complex tests. We have developed and implemented in practice the Plekhanov's Sport Complex (PSC) designed to train, in a reasonably phased manner, people of different age, health and basic physical fitness groups for the GTO tests. Practical implementation experience of the PSC in every discipline of the bachelors' training system showed the university students being fairly enthusiastic about the initiative (as verified by the signing-up lists for the tests) and, as a result, more than 3000 students of the second, third and fourth academic years were successful in the GTO tests. In addition, the PSC efficiency was indirectly proved by the 3rd place won by the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics team in the students' competitions of May 30, 2015. The popularity and benefits of the PSC was recognized by a decision of the University Academic Council to include the PSC into students' academic progress rating system as an integral part of the creative/ athletic rating component.