Dynamics of change in students’ physical fitness while physical exercising and after stopping it

Abstract

The research covered 206 students of 1^st and 2^nd years of A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry aged 17.5±1.5. The aim of the current research was to study the dynamics of changes in students’ physical fitness while being engagied in physical exercises within the curriculum and a year after stopping it through comparing two methodologies of teaching physical culture: standard and modified developed by us on the basis of yoga. As the research showed that girls engaged in yoga tended to improve their physical fitness for a number of indexes (increase in a standing jump distance and time reduction in the 100 meters), as compared to girls engaged in physical culture according to the traditional methodology. A year after stopping the active interference a tendency to maintain the level of fitness in all investigated indexes was exhibited for the students engaged in yoga, while the students taught according to the traditional methodology tended to decrease the level of physical fitness that manifested itself in worse performance of the studied norms of GTO (a complex of physical exercises “Ready for Labour and Defense”).