PUPILS’ MOTOR ACTIVITY AND PHYSICAL STATUS

The article deals with the study of the role of motor activity in improving the physical state of the younger generation. The aim of the work was to study the main features of somatic health and physical fitness of pupils of the Lyceum depending on the level of their motor activity. When studying the dependence of the level of somatic health (G. L. Apanasenko's method) and physical readiness from the level of motor activity (A. S. Kuts method), we conducted an experimental study among pupils aged 15–17 who study at the Academic Lyceum under authority of Kherson State University. The results of the study as a whole confirmed our assumption and the known truth fixed in literary sources: pupils who have a higher level of motor activity demonstrate a higher level of somatic health and physical mastery characteristics. When analyzing the indicators of the lyceum pupils' somatic health from the level of their motor activity, it can be noted that in the group of boys and girls, we see relatively better results when dealing with the people who demonstrate a high level of the index of motor activity according to almost all indicators of somatic health. In most cases, pupils with low levels of motor activity demonstrated the worst indicators of somatic health. Young male and female schoolchildren with a high and medium level of motor activity demonstrated significantly higher results when performing strength- and agility-centred exercises in comparison with those who are characterized by a low level of motor activity. Young men and girls with a high level of motor activity had significantly higher rates when performing speed- and strength-centred exercises in comparison with the indicators demonstrated by those ones with moderate and low levels of motor activity. Organized motor activity and optimal physical activity within household activities, physical culture and health are the factors that can influence the level of somatic health and physical mastery of the pupils studying at the designated Lyceum.