COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PHYSICAL FITNESS OF STUDENTS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION FACULTIES IN UKRAINE AND POLAND

Increasing the level of physical fitness of student youth is one of the primary tasks of the Departments of Physical Education in higher education. The level of physical fitness of students depends on their mastery of the forms, means and types of physical training in the various sports used during training and during independent exercise. Physical preparedness is considered as the pedagogical process, during which a complex of educational, health-improving tasks are formed, special knowledge, skills, abilities are created, favorable conditions for purposeful development of smportant physical qualities: strength, endurance, speed, flexibility, coordination. The forms, means, methods used to work with student youth have improved the physical fitness of students in Ukraine and Poland who have implemented a physical education curriculum for higher education institutions. Thus, the results of pedagogical research, which included raising the level of physical activity of student youth, as well as the use of physical exercises, and the methods and forms of classes included in this program, should effectively influence the development of physical qualities, and improve their level of physical fitness. Systematic and purposeful pedagogical actions in relation to student youth are able to change the indicators of their physical condition and in general to activate the process of motor activity of student youth.