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3. The role of physical education in ensuring health

It should be remembered that one of the mandatory factors for a healthy lifestyle for students is the use of systematic physical activity that is appropriate for gender, age, and health status. These loads are a combination of various motor actions performed in everyday life, in organized and independent physical exercise and sports, united by the term “motor activity”.

For most people engaged in intellectual work, physical activity is significantly limited. This statement can be fully applied to students, for whom the dynamic ratio of the dynamic and statistical components of life activity is 1:3 in time during educational activities, and 1:1 in energy expenditure ; during extracurricular time, 1:8 and 1:2, respectively.
Physical education classes provided as part of the compulsory program of educational institutions, 2 times a week, on average provide the opportunity for movements in the amount of 4000-7300 steps, which cannot compensate for the general deficit of physical activity per week. At the same time , on weekends, a sedentary lifestyle dominates among most students, and the motor component makes up less than 2% of the free time budget.
However, students who are included in systematic physical education and sports classes and are quite active in them develop a certain stereotype of their daily routine, their confidence in behavior increases, the development of prestigious attitudes and high vitality are observed.
Such students are more sociable, express readiness for collaboration, enjoy social recognition, and are less afraid of criticism. They have higher emotional stability and endurance, they are more characterized by optimism and energy, among them there are more persistent, decisive people who know how to lead a team. This group of students has a greater sense of duty, conscientiousness, and self-discipline. They successfully interact in work that requires constancy and tension, they make contacts more freely, and they are able to self-control more easily.
At the same time, speaking about motivations in the field of maintaining health and keeping the body in good shape, it is worth noting that in the first place among them is the desire to feel confident among other people, to like them more and to gain respect; then - to enjoy physical activity, feel the joy and beauty of your own body, experience joy from muscle tone, etc. At the same time, the desire to achieve high sports results is prestigious only for a very limited circle of today's students (only 2.5% of women and 6% of men).
It is worth noting that the possibilities of physical education as a means of maintaining performance have not yet received proper assessment among students. This state of affairs is largely due to the lack of general cultural development of the younger generation, as well as the lack of knowledge on these issues.
The path to general cultural development, and therefore to health, begins precisely with the mastery of knowledge that is ahead of practice, indicates the path to its transformation, transforms knowledge into elements of consciousness, expanding and processing it into beliefs. At the same time , beliefs are built not so much on the logical nature of knowledge, but, to a much greater extent, on the practical meaning of this knowledge.
The lack of muscle movements at work and at home, as well as during movement, negatively affects the physiological functions of the body of a modern person. A person, in principle, can live in complete absence of movement, but this leads to muscle atrophy and deterioration in the functionality of the cardiovascular and other systems.
Thus, regular physical education, sports, various types of physical exercise and active recreation will help overcome motor starvation of the body or lack of physical activity.
In modern conditions, when mobility is limited by working and living conditions, regular exercise and various sports help to reveal the natural inclinations and abilities of a young person, correct the moments missed in childhood in physical development and his preparedness .
It is worth noting that in childhood, adolescence, and in other age groups up to old age, the problem of choosing exercises and sports to improve health, for physical development, to increase and maintain a high level of general and professional performance arises.
At the same time, many young people, for various reasons, completely bypassed such a choice, bypassed sports training during their school years. Oddly enough, but most often this happens precisely to those young people for whom, due to their insufficient physical development and functional readiness, additional sports training would be simply necessary.
In a higher educational institution, where the educational and professional program in the academic discipline “Physical Culture” provides for mandatory training sessions with each student, the problem of choice again arises.
Along with a section of theoretical and methodological-practical classes, this academic discipline provides for an elective course and practical training sessions during the first four years of a student’s studies. These classes are organized on the basis of a specific sport or system of physical exercises independently chosen by the student himself.
It is worth noting that many years of experience show that even with such a choice, there is still no clear, conscious and justified motivation for the majority of students, and most often the choice is determined by chance (either with a friend, or the teacher is more attractive, or the schedule is more convenient). At the same time, a much less common factor determining the choice is a stable interest in a particular sport or an understanding of the need for certain physical exercises to correct deficiencies in one’s physical development or functional readiness.
At the same time, despite all the randomness, and sometimes uncertainty and fallacy of such a choice, in practice the following four motivational options are mainly observed:
a sport is selected in order to achieve high sporting results;

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  choosing a specific sport to improve health, correct physique and posture, increase overall performance and psychological stability;
  
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  a sport is selected on the basis of some existing sports experience or interest for the purpose of active recreation, to relieve general fatigue, neuro-emotional tension;
  
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  choice of sports or physical exercises for the purpose of psychophysical preparation for future professional activities.
  

Of course, regular sports in any of the presented areas will in any case have an impact on the professional development of a future specialist, but to varying degrees.
It is necessary that students understand the relationship between physical culture (sports) and human life, with the potential of various sports not only to influence the improvement of the general functional readiness of a young person, but also to ensure his psychophysical preparedness for future professional activities.
All this should help the student consciously and reasonably choose a sport (system of physical exercises) not only in the elective course of the compulsory academic discipline “Physical Education” (twice a week), but also for additional, independent studies in his free time.
Speaking about the role of physical culture and sports in preparing for life and a future profession, we probably cannot limit ourselves only to solving the problems of developing and improving various functions of the body, but we must once again pay attention to increasing the psychological preparedness of students. It is no secret that very often young specialists complain that they were taught a lot over the years of professional training in a special educational institution, but they were not taught how to work with people, and were not armed with psychological confidence and stability when leading a team.
At the same time, it should be especially noted the role of sports and physical culture in the formation of people with a strong will and strong character, which is directly related to the constant need to endure a variety of physical and mental stress not only.
These loads, often higher than in ordinary life and professional work, largely influence the formation and development of a person’s personality.
Speaking about the role of physical exercise in the formation of a healthy lifestyle, we must also not forget about another component of it - the culture of interpersonal communication. Undoubtedly, the development of communicative activities and culture is facilitated by diverse and versatile physical culture and sports activities, with its numerous interpersonal contacts of a humanistic nature.