Enhancing physical fitness of future national security personnel of ukraine using team sports

Abstract

The article analyses the influence of athletic gymnastics, swimming and basketball on the indicators’ dynamics characterizing the level of the students’ physical activity. It has been found that basketball is an effective means of developing an individual’s physical skills. The results obtained from the pedagogical experiment have shown some positive indicators’ dynamics of the morphofunctional development, physical performance and general physical fitness of the students from the Institute of Department of State Guard of Ukraine of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The experiment involved the students of the 2018 admission campaign (n=58). Significant improvement (p> 0.05) of the Stange, Genchi, and Harvard steppe test has been detected. The results obtained from the performance of control exercises for determining the level of general physical fitness of the individuals who systematically played basketball prove some positive dynamics (p>0.05). In the experimental group, the pull-up results have increased by 13.2%, the shuttle run 10×10 m – by 3.3%, the 3000 m running – by 3.7%. These obtained results indicate the effectiveness of the methodology for enhancing the general physical fitness of the employees of the Department of the State Guard of Ukraine (hereinafter, the DSGU) using basketball.