Sports orienteering as a means of cadets’ physical training

Abstract

The article substantiates the need to introduce sports orienteering as an effective means of physical training of future officers of the Armed Forces in the educational process of higher education. In the process of introducing of sports orienteering in the educational process of training future officers, there was an improvement of the level of special physical fitness, development of physical, psychological, moral and volitional qualities and the formation of applied skills of cadets. Sports orienteering is a sport that harmoniously combines physical, mental and psychological qualities. Training sessions in sports orienteering are aimed at strengthening the health of cadets, providing comprehensive physical fitness, development of special physical qualities that are characteristic of this type of activity, achieving maximum sports results in competitions, mastering techniques and tactics of orienteering, which directly affect the formation strong-willed qualities of servicemen in future professional activity. Research methods: theoretical analysis of scientific and methodical literature, best practices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, guiding documents. It was found that sports orienteering promotes the development of general and special physical qualities and military-applied skills, education of moral and volitional qualities in cadets, which allows to recommend this sport as an effective means of physical training of servicemen for future military-professional (combat) activities.