Functional analysis of the appraisal of physical properties on the example of medical students

Abstract

Complex methods of studying the level of physical training are an integral part of some national programs for the preservation of human health in foreign countries. The development of physical education and mass sport is required as a condition for the improving of current health-protecting technologies. Creation, approbation, physiological basing and unification of screening approaches for detection of motor skills remains an actual problem in physiology of sport. The study suggests a range of tests and exercises for the assessment of muscular force, endurance, and flexibility examined in 31 male and female 17-21 years old medical students. The number, type, technique, sequence of exercises and the duration of pauses between them was formed taking into account the classical notions of the evaluation of physical qualities. Heart rate was measured via ECG monitoring before an after performance of conventional physical loads according to the suggested algorithm. Statistical processing of the results was carried out using the T-test and the Wilcoxon pair test, correlation and regression analysis. Correlative statistical analysis confirmed the availability of proposed exercise complex for screening the physical properties of students and secondary school pupils. Conclusions: the homogeneity of the data obtained and the natural response of the heart rate can serve as a functional justification for the technique used. After approbation in large groups of subjects, it is proposed to recommend it as a method for screening the level of physical development in students and schoolchildren.