ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL FITNESS OF POSTSECONDARY STUDENTS WHEN PERFORMING THE STANDARDS OF ALL-RUSSIAN ATHLETIC CIVIL DEFENSE SQUADS COMPLEX
The article provides the facts that the majority of postsecondary students, especially women students of non-sport faculties, do not cope with the standards of All-Russian Athletic Civil Defense Squads Complex. The reason for the current problem may reside in lack of knowledge about complex intent, its target figures, content and normative base which allows for postsecondary students to form the lack of interest and low motivation for the process of preparing and passing the standards of All-Russian Athletic Civil Defense Squads Complex leading to physical weakness. It is supposed that by the means of research goal which is to evaluate physical fitness of postsecondary women students during performance of the standards of All-Russian Athletic Civil Defense Squads Complex it will succeed to find approaches and take a set of measures to eliminate the current problem and raise effectiveness in accordance with the standards of All-Russian Athletic Civil Defense Squads Complex. This experiment was attended by first-year women students of Surgut State Pedagogical University of Psychology and Pedagogy faculty in number of 18 people, whose physical fitness was evaluated using All-Russian Athletic Civil Defense Squads Complex tests intended for the sixth age level. Results of the research permit to state the low level of physical fitness of postsecondary women students when performance of the standards of All-Russian Athletic Civil Defense Squads Complex. Under the existing circumstances it is required to increase theoretical and educational part in order to form students’ knowledge about the intent and target figures of All-Russian Athletic Civil Defense Squads Complex, as well as its content and normative base. In order to increase physical fitness, it is required to engage postsecondary students in independent physical activity out of university hours including attendance at sectional training in sports. The content of working programs on physical education shall be introduced with means of physical fitness targeted to preparing for the kinds of tests of All-Russian Athletic Civil Defense Squads Complex.