ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL TRAINING OF THE RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS’ STUDENTS

Abstract

The significant change of missions and organization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine requires the deep transformation in the military education system and development military professional training, especially citizens’ training system development, inter alia ROTC students during last decades. The Action Plan on the Implementation of Defense Reform up to 2020 (Road Map of the Defense Reform) reveals the military education system’s effectiveness enhancement due to the improvement of training facilities, training exercises, NATO counties advanced training technologies and methodologies’ implementation in education. Reforms in the sphere of education and defense in Ukraine have revealed significant gaps in the system of physical training of student youth, development of which has not been kept abreast. The students do not form a self-assessment of their physical abilities and the need to master theoretical knowledge of physical fitness, as a result of which physical training, as a pedagogical process, doesn’t unclose the person’s education and socialization. The purpose of our research is to analyze the impact of university ROTC students’ physical fitness results on the state of their academic performance in combined arms training. The methods of analysis, synthesis and summarization of scientific research data of physical training problems and its legal framework were used during research. As a result of the research, the influence of insufficient physical fitness on the level of combined arms training of future reserve officers was revealed due to the negligence of both physical training legal framework of the student youth and ROTC. The research of low ROTC training level highlights that the current healthy recovery system of student youth physical training doesn’t provide for the necessary theoretical knowledge, methodic and practical skills’ development. The lack of hours for special physical training in the combined arms training of ROTC higher education establishments increases the negative effects of traditional physical training system’s absence on the state mobilization resources level.