Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of rehabilitation fitness on the physical condition of women with musculoskeletal disorders. Materials and methods. The study was held on the basis of the fitness club "LIGA" in Lviv and was attended by 65 women of the first mature age with musculoskeletal disorders. The methods used were: theoretical analysis and generalization of data from scientific and methodological literature; pedagogical observation; sociological method; pedagogical testing; pedagogical experiment; medical and biological methods; methods of mathematical statistics. Results and discussion. As the survey showed female fitness club visitors pay attention to the study of various aspects of leading a healthy lifestyle. The main sources of informing women about the need for health-improving classes for most women (47.2%) were friends and 27.0% of people received information from the Internet. Strength fitness is preferred by 62.0% of people. 22.3% of women preferred cyclic kinds of physical activities. Dance fitness programs attract 8.9% of respondents. Further research was aimed at studying the impact of rehabilitative fitness classes on women's health. 21 women who had osteochondrosis and consented to participate in the study were involved in the pedagogical experiment. The program of rehabilitation fitness classes was developed taking into account the recommendations of specialists and was aimed at restoring the functional state of the spine and preventing recurrence of the disease. In addition, women were offered individual recommendations for daily water intake, a balanced diet and daily routine. Conclusion. It was found that 68.8% of women surveyed are interested both in information about general health and health promotion and leisure activities; 22.6% of women are interested in the features of certain types of health activities; 12.9% of people would like to learn about the possibilities of non-traditional remedies and 1.1% are not interested in healthy living. It is determined that after the use of rehabilitation fitness classes the number of persons with below average level decreased by 19.1%; the number of women with an average level of physical condition increased by 23.8% and the number of persons with above-average level increased by 4.8%. However, women with low and high level of physical condition were not detected. It was found that the percentage of fat in women before the pedagogical experiment was 22.98 ± 6.37%, while after three months of training its rate was 20.24 ± 5.79%. There was an improvement of this indicator by 11.9%. In terms of weight, it decreased by 2.13 kg

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