Nakonechna A. Improvement of health-related pilates classes for women of the second period of mature age using different target directions programs.

The object is fitness classes for women of the second period of mature age. The goal of the research is to increase the effectiveness of physical training and Pilates training for women of the second period of mature age and to improve their physical and psycho-emotional state by using individual programs of Pilates classes of different targeting. The methods are theoretical analysis and generalizations; pedagogical observation; sociological; empirical: morphofunctional, pedagogical testing; pedagogical experiment; mathematical statistics methods. The novelty is that the expediency of using individual programs of different targeting in physical training classes of Pilates for women of the second period of mature age is proved; the priority motives of Pilates training in women of the second period of mature age, which are correction of posture and elimination of pain in different parts of the spine; normalization of body weight, changes in relief and muscle elasticity; to increase the capacity for work and maintain or improve the level of development of physical qualities; systematized tasks and objects of training impact of individual Pilates classes for women of the second period of mature age, created taking into account the priority motives of employment and physical condition of women of the second period of mature age. The results are improvement of the process of development of physical and fitness trainings for women of the second period of mature age with the use of individual programs of Pilates classes of different target direction, which positively influence on improvement of indicators of their physical and psycho-emotional state. The results of the study were implemented in the practical activity of specialists in the field of health-related physical culture, in the practice of the fitness centers «Prestige», «Kiwi-fitness», The International Center for Posture Correction, Oksana Slinko «Academy of Grace» in Lviv, were used in the educational process of the students of LSUPC named after I. Boberskyi in the disciplines «Rehabilitation and restorative training in choreography» (specialty 024 Choreography); disciplines «Recreational-health activity» and «Health-related fitness» (specialty 017 Physical education and sports, 227 Physical therapy and ergotherapy and 014.11 Secondary education), which is confirmed by the acts of implementation. The branch is physical education and sport.