To specification of the category, definition of reference points and some contours of "family physical culture"
As the component of physical culture, family physical culture is characterized by the directed use of the motor activity for optimization of the mental and physical state, formation and development of the individual in the conditions of the family life. Thus, the family sphere renders the significant role on its formation and gives it specific features. Satisfying various objective social and personal requirements through realization of the specific functions the family physical culture renders the maximum effect at early age when in the child the steadiest requirements and motives to sports and health-improving activity and healthy lifestyle are put. Thus, process of physical training of the child in the conditions of the family life is put into dependence on the sports education of the parents. The developed scientific and program and methodical fundamentals of the family physical culture allow to level partially the existing problems as they are focused on preparation of the sports and pedagogical staff for the work with the family, education of the parental public and the organization of sports and health-improving work in the family groups. However, the problem of standard and legal and material support of the work with a family in the specified direction demands further improvement. The satisfaction of the legislative deficiency will allow family physical culture to be issued structurally as the complete social phenomenon.