The dissertation is about the development, scientific substantiation and experimental verification of the program of sectional classes using Thai boxing exercises for correcting the physical state of students aged 17-19 with different levels of physical health.
An attempt to solve the actual problem of correction of students` physical condition taking into account their motivational priorities for physical culture and sports is made in the thesis.
The developed program included: purpose, objectives, principles, planning system, components and performance criteria: increased physical fitness, physical health, improvement of functional indicators; mastering the technical and tactical elements of Thai boxing, a stable motivational-value attitude to physical education and sport.
Sectional classes for students were conducted three times per week for 80 minutes during the academic year. Students within the group were subdivided according to the levels of physical health into subgroups with low, lower than average and average levels for differentiating the content and intensity of physical activity in occupations and correction of physical state indicators. The experimental group included 13 young people with a low level of physical health, 12 persons with lower than the average and 3 persons with an average level.
The developed content of the program had three sections: theoretical, practical, control. The contents of the practical section varied depending on the level of physical health of the students. Differentiation of loads, selection of technical and tactical elements of Thai boxing for correction the physical condition were carried out for students with low, lower than average and average levels of health. For each subgroup in accordance with the level of physical health, tailor-made general and special means of Thai boxing and intensity of physical activity in classes were selected.
Correction of the physical state was carried out by varying the loads, depending on the indicators of physical fitness, functional state and level of physical health. The intensity of the loads was planned to be differentiated for each subgroup of the level of physical health.
The conducted pedagogical experiment has confirmed the effectiveness of using specially selected Thai boxing exercises for correction of the physical fitness of students with different levels of health. There were improved functional indicators (lungs capacity, Skibinsky index, heart rate, orthostatic, Rufe index), physical fitness (speed, endurance, strength, agility, flexibility, speed-power abilities) and physical health of the examined boys. There were decreased the number of students with a low level of physical health, also it was increased the number of students with an average and higher than average levels.
Depending on the levels of physical health, there has been a significant improvement in the functional indicators and physical fitness of students with low and lower than average and average levels. Students with a low level of physical health generally had a larger increase in results, which is explained by a large reserve of body functions.
In the thesis for the first time there is determined the purposeful influence of Thai boxing classes for the development of general and special physical qualities (explosive and high-speed strength, speed and strength endurance, speed of simple and complex reaction, coordination abilities). Also there are determined the structure and content of classes, physical activity parameters in Thai boxing exercises for students with different levels of physical health on the basis of a differentiated approach.
There are expanded the concept of the factor structure of the physical condition of students 17-19 years old and the rational balance of means of purposeful influence on functional indicators, development of physical qualities and physical well-being of men.
This gives grounds for using Thai boxing in the system of training and extracurricular students' activities in order to correct physical fitness.
The results of the study were introduced into training process of the Department of Physical Education and Sports of the State Higher Educational Establishment "Prydniprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture", in the educational process of the Khmelnitsky National University on discipline "Theory and Methods of Physical Education in Higher Education Institutions", in the educational process of Prydniprovsk State Academy of Physical Culture and Sport, in the teaching of discipline "Theory and Methods of Physical Education in Higher Education Institutions", which confirm the implementation acts.
