Effectiveness of use of sports and healthy swimming eguipment in increase of physical fitness of girls 17-21 years old

Abstract

In the course of the study, the peculiarities of physical fitness and changes in indicators of physical performance of young women aged 17-21 under the influence of systematic sports and recreational swimming were studied. The purpose of our study was to assess the effectiveness of using sports and recreational swimming to improve the physical fitness of young women aged 17-21. 38 young women who attend the ZFP groups and health swimming groups of the "Akvarena" pool in Kharkiv took part in the study. The studied women were divided into control (CG, n = 20) and experimental (EG, n = 18) groups. Specialized classes in groups of general physical training and classes in recreational swimming groups were held for nine months, 2-3 times a week, the duration of one class was 45 minutes. The following methods were used during data collection: analysis of literary sources; test method; pedagogical experiment; pedagogical observation; method of mathematical processing of research data. The work presents materials that show that the use of sports and health swimming facilities contributed to the significant optimization of the main indicators of physical fitness of young women who attend sports and health swimming classes (speed, strength, agility, speed and strength abilities), the growth of their aerobic capabilities and level general physical capacity. After the formative experiment, all the indicators used in the study in the women of the experimental group, who were engaged in recreational swimming, were reliable and better than in the young women of the control group, who practiced according to the traditional program for the ZFP groups on land. The obtained results provide grounds for the use of recreational swimming to increase the effectiveness of the process of physical education of young people and young women in particular.