Physical fitness level of students of higher educational institutions from a historical perspective

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the physical fitness level of the students of Ukrainian higher educational institutions during the last forty years. The physical fitness level of students was assessed by the results of exercises that characterize the development of basic physical qualities: speed (the 100 m run), power (pull-ups for males and push-ups for females), endurance (the 3000 m run for males and the 2000 m run for females), speed and power qualities (standing long jump). The study was conducted on the indicators of students (n=3964, including 1734 males and 2230 females) in 1982-2019. The research proved that the physical fitness level of parents was not better than that of their children – modern students: the results of the students of 2018-2019 in most of the exercises did not differ significantly from that of the students of the 80-90s of the last century (р˃0.05).