FEATURES OF BREAST EXCURSION INDICATORS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

Analysis of the results of a study conducted on 129 fi rst and second year students of higher educational institutions in Chernivtsi, aged 16 to 21, who were divided into the main – 89 (69%) and the control group – 40 (31%), by determining the excursion of the chest (the diff erence between the circumference at maximum inspiration and maximum expiration, where the high is 10.0 or more, the average is 5.0-9.9, the low is 4.9 and less than 10), in order to study and analyze the indicators of the excursion for further use in sports selection, showed that the students of the main group had a signifi cantly larger number with a high level of excursions – 30 (33.7%), in contrast to students of the control group, where students with a high level of mobility had only – 5 (12.5%). And vice versa, among the students of the main group, a low level of excursion was noted in a small number – 6 (6.7%), while in the control group this indicator was – 8 (20%) of the studied. Also, when analyzing the results of the study of chest mobility indicators among students of the main group, it was noted that the highest level of excursions studied were the largest among football and volleyball players, somewhat less tennis, fi tness, basketball and free wrestling players.So, the results of the breast excursion can be taken into account in the professional sports perspective of students, specialties related to physical culture and sports, sports schools and more. And also especially to consider when referring an athlete to a specifi c sport.