Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of health and healthy lifestyles. The aim of the article is to reveal the essence of a healthy lifestyle, the conditions of its formation in students and scientific substantiation of the role of physical activity in the formation, strengthening and maintaining human health. A healthy lifestyle is seen as a form of daily life that includes appropriate principles and rules that develop the body's adaptive capacity, contribute to the successful formation, maintenance, strengthening or restoration of health and full activity. Optimal motor regime is interpreted as intensity-regulated physical activity that fully satisfies the biological need for movement, meets the functional capabilities of the body, takes into account the specifics of professional activities and promotes a healthy lifestyle, maintaining and promoting health. The main characteristics of human motor activity are his physical fitness and physical condition. Physical fitness is considered as a result achieved by training motor skills and increasing the level of efficiency of the body, which are necessary for the assimilation and performance of a certain type of activity. Whereas physical condition is an indicator of a person's condition and level of physical health. The latter depends on natural and social factors. Physical condition and physical fitness determine a person's physical development, which can be changed and improved through exercise, work and rest, nutrition. The results of the study of a healthy lifestyle of student youth (on the example of students of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports of the National University "Poltava Polytechnic named after Yuri Kondratyuk") showed that young people are ready to form HLS or are already concerned that lifestyle meets healthy criteria. Young people approach this through self-assessment of their own way of life and the way of life of their friends and acquaintances, gaining knowledge about health and a healthy lifestyle and its composition, doing sports.

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