PhD O.V. Zlygostev¹
PhD, Associate Professor S.A. Tatyаnenko^1
1Tobolsk Industrial Institute, branch of Tyumen Industrial University, Tobolsk

Keywords: students, physical education, futsal, physical fitness, health rate.

Introduction. Among the main purposes of physical education is to prepare a person for the forthcoming professional activity. Futsal is a sport game contributing to improvement of man’s motor actions, as well as development of special qualities required for his future professional activity [2, 7, 10]. It should be noted that introduction of futsal into the university educational process and extracurricular (sectional) activities effectively enhances students’ physical fitness and promotes good health among young people, both males and females [3, 5, 8, 9].

Playing sport games helps increase physical fitness level and leads to functional changes in the body that have a positive effect on the human health in general [11]. In order to improve the university physical education process and constantly monitor the dynamics of students’ physical fitness and health levels, a monitoring system is to be created to control their health indicators at the beginning and at the end of the academic year, comparing the effects of futsal before and after the training sessions [1, 4, 6]. The facts presented have proved the relevance of the study.

Objective of the study was to determine the correlation of physical fitness and health rate of non-core university students trained in futsal groups.

Methods and structure of the study. The study lasted from September 2011 through May 2017. Subject to the study were 148 1^st-2^nd-year students belonging to the basic health group, who were trained in traditional academic sports with the use of conditioning exercises. The study also involved 36 students of the faculty of science and humanities department playing futsal during the academic and extracurricular activities. The students’ physical fitness level was assessed by means of the tests generally accepted in futsal practice, which determined the level of their speed (92 m run - "shuttle run") and speed-strength abilities (3 kg medicine ball horizontal throw, males). The students’ functional fitness level was determined using the Ruffier test.

Results and discussion. According to the findings, by the end of the academic year, the students doing conditioning exercises during the academic physical education classes were found to have a slight increase in the running speed in shuttle run - 30.9±1.2 s (p>0.05), as compared to the data obtained at the beginning of the year - 31.9±1.4 s. It was also established that, by the end of the academic year, the students who trained in futsal groups had a significant increase of the shuttle run results (26.9±1.1 s), as opposed to the results demonstrated at the beginning of the year - 30.6±1.3 s (p <0.01).

The medicine ball throw results demonstrated by the university students doing traditional academic sports improved from 3.7±0.08 to 3.8±0.07 m by the end of the academic year, but were insignificant (p>0.05). It is quite common that for the students trained in futsal groups the medicine ball throw results also tended to slightly increase throughout the year (p>0.05) - from 4.2±0.12 to 4.7±0.10 m.

Ruffier index is the most common method of assessment of students’ functional fitness, by which their state of health can be evaluated. It should be emphasized that, before the experiment, the health rates in the students engaged in traditional academic sports and futsal groups were 5.5±0.22 and 5.8±0.18 c.u. respectively, which was considered a good indicator. The evaluation of the final data testifies to a decrease of the functional fitness level, which corresponds to a "satisfactory" state - 7.3±0.28 c.u. in the students engaged in traditional academic sports (p<0.05). The major increase in the health rates of the students is due to the active implementation of futsal in the academic and extracurricular activities. Thus, at the end of the academic year, HR after motor activity equaled 130.4±8.9 bpm, which is deemed to be a good physical fitness level of industrial university students engaged in futsal groups.

It is noteworthy that the standard deviation from the arithmetic mean heart rate at rest (P1), after motor activity (P2), and after a 1-minute recovery (P3) in the students engaged in traditional academic sports increased at the end of the experiment by 5.8; 9.6 and 11.6 bpm, respectively (p<0.05). This feature may be indicative of decreasing activity and interest in attending traditional conditioning classes and, as a result, poor physical fitness and low health rates.

The specificity of the correlation dependence helps better understand the objective rationale of the phenomena under study. Thus, students engaged in traditional academic sports are observed to have a causal and stochastic (probabilistic) dependence, when one variable is not a cause of change of another variable, since these two variables are influenced by one or several common factors. Students playing futsal were found to have a simple linear correlation in the initial and final shuttle run results, r=0.76 and 0.76 respectively, and in the health rates, r=0.87 and 0.89 (p<0.05).

Conclusion. The study found significant variations in the physical fitness versus health rates in the students trained in futsal groups versus the students engaged in traditional academic sports who were tested with insignificant variations in the same rates. We believe that the academic team sports are highly beneficial as verified by the physical progress and health rates of the students. Therefore, we recommend to give higher priority to futsal practices in the modern academic physical education curricula as it is accessible, highly efficient and universally applicable physical development tool that provides necessary emotional motivations for the young people’s health improvement activity.

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Corresponding author: oleg_zlig@mail.ru

Abstract

Modern academic physical education is designed to give a top priority to the education components geared to protect and improve students’ health. Optional academic sports are designed to effectively contribute to the students’ health improvement process and facilitate professional progress of the future specialists. The study considers the physical fitness versus health rates of Tobolsk Industrial University students trained in futsal groups.

The study found significant variations in the physical fitness versus health rates in the students trained in futsal groups versus the students engaged in traditional academic sports who were tested with insignificant variations in the same rates. We believe that the academic team sports are highly beneficial as verified by the physical progress and health rates of the students. Therefore, we recommend to give higher priority to futsal practices in the modern academic physical education curricula as it is accessible, highly efficient and universally applicable physical development tool that provides necessary emotional motivations for the young people’s health improvement activity.