Influence of motor activity on viability of middle-aged persons
Nowadays the problem of preservation and strengthening of health of the adult population is actual. Physical education and sports help to increase physical activity, which in turn contributes to the improvement of the physical condition of the person. Physical culture not only strengthens health, but also helps a person to remain efficient and improve the functional capabilities of the body. The article is devoted to the study of physiological need for motor activity in middle-aged people. The author of this article develops diagnostic tools to determine the level of viability. In particular, the author identifies the individual-typological differences in motor activity and determines morphofunctional and psychophysical criteria for the separation of all middle-aged people into four groups. Based on the obtained experimental data, the author comes to the conclusion that for people of middle age one of the factors that fundamentally affect the decline in the coefficient of viability is the state of physiological status. The decrease in physiological status necessarily leads to a deterioration in both psychological and social status. If the physiological status increases with the performance of the usual motor activity, it immediately improves not only the coefficient of viability, but also psychological and social status.