Ways of improving the students’ physical education

Abstract

The article reveals the urgency and ways of improving the students’ physical education providing the improvement of the structure and content of its basic components including the expansion of the information and methodological support of the educational process by means of practice-oriented content and the use of electronic and multimedia resources. Updating training programs are used to reflect the psychophysical features of the future professional activities of graduates; sportization of education (load differentiation and consideration of preferences in the choice of the type of motor activity); the use of modern fitness technologies and other means in training sessions that increase the students’ motivation for the training activities. The survey results show that today, even realizing the role of physical exercises in maintaining health, the motivation of the majority of students is based on the need to get a credit for the discipline, and the development of interests is limited by the existing conditions for the organization of the training process at the university. The article also specifies the elements of the high school physical education system aimed at the improvement of its effectiveness.