INFLUENCE MADE BY CYCLIC SPORTS TRAINING ON STUDENTS’ PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

The paper presents the data regarding the physical and functional state of the students who are engaged into cyclic sports, running short distances to be more precise. The aim of the article is to study the peculiarities of the physical development of the students specialising in cyclic sports. We used these methods: anthropometry (determination of length and weight of the body, body size, fat content, lung capacity, dynamometry), index method (power index, body mass index, an index of proportionality of physical body physique, Erisman's index, Manouvrier's index, Pignet's index), functional tests by Stange and Ghencea, Martine-Kushelevsky, statistical methods. Conclusions: It is determined that the fat content of the students engaged in cycling sports is 15,9%; the power index corresponds to the average level (71,6 ± 4,13); they have a proportional and normal state (IРР = 9,5 ± 0,9 and ІP = 13,0 ± 3,8 respectively); it determined by a relatively narrow chest of students specializing in cyclic sports. students who are not involved in sports (test Stange 103 sec. and 85 sec., test Ghencea – 62 sec. and 42 sec. respectively); the student who are involved into sports activities demonstrated a better power state than those ones who are not involved into sports. Unfortunately, there were found out some problems connected with the physical development of the students-runners: vital capacity of lungs is inferior in relation to the students who are not involved into sports (4486 ml vs 4920 ml.); the chest coverage of the students-runners is 4.4 cm, in average, less than that of one of the students who are not involved into sports; the excursion of their chest is, respectively, less as well. It is shown that all students have the normotensive type of reaction to physical exercise, but both groups contain 30% of cases demonstrating «permissible reaction» typical of healthy, but untrained or overtrained persons.