Ivanska O. Improving the physical condition of students aged 18-19 on the basis of integrated use of aqua aerobics and recreational swimming

The mean value of the functional state of the cardiovascular system in girls aged 18-19 years, and the level of the functional state of the respiratory system and physical health was lower than the average. In addition, at the beginning of the study, the girls had a good body type, but there was a certain deficit of body weight and an increase in fat. The use of the traditional program for recreational swimming among 18-19 year old students contributed to a certain improvement in their general physical condition, but the number of significant positive changes was quite limited: at the end of the observational experiment, most fitness tests improved by only 1-5%, and the expressed positive changes concerned the index of physical performance (9,2%; p<0,05), as well as the results of flexibility tests (6,77%; p<0,05) and static force (6,57%; p<0,05); at the end of the observational experiment there was a significant (p<0,05; p<0,01) improvement in heart rate, diastolic blood pressure, total peripheral vascular resistance, cardiac index, results in the Stange and Gench tests (3-12%), levels of functional state of the circulatory system, external respiration and physical health (respectively 7%; 9% and 24%) and indicators that characterize the body type of students 18-19 years. The results of a survey conducted among students aged 18-19 years of higher education, indicate that the vast majority of girls (over 85%) supported the use of two or more types of exercise, including aqua aerobics and recreational swimming, in the process of sectional classes. Based on the results of the observational experiment to increase the efficiency of the process of physical education of students aged 18-19, the author's program of section classes with integrated use of aqua aerobics and health swimming, which contains: purpose, objectives, structure and content of section classes, total hours and its distribution by 4 modules and 10 submodules, each of which has its own goals and objectives, a list of means of general, special physical, technical training, the relationship between different types of training in each module and submodule, as well as pulse modes of exercise in aqua aerobics and health swimming in within the individual components of the experimental program. In addition, at the end of the formative experiment for students of the experimental group were also characterized by significantly better, compared with girls in the control group, the rate of improvement in body type: fat content (by 20%) and estimates for body type (by 10%). The obtained data confirmed the effectiveness of integrated use of aqua aerobics and health swimming to improve the physical condition of female students of higher education.