Impact of the Combined Use of Health-Improving Fitness Methods ("Pilates" and "Bodyflex") on the Level of Functional and Psychophysiological Capabilities of Students

IntroductionThe results of a modern scientific research [1; 4; 5; 6; 9; 12; 14] show that the system-forming factor of students' healthy way of life is health-oriented physical activity. Therefore, the most urgent task is to attract students to regular exercising, to increase the motivation of the growing generation to physical activity and healthy lifestyle [15; 17; 20; 21; 25; 26; 27]. The need to solve this problem becomes stronger by the fact that the formation of the habits of regular exercising and physical activity of children, teenagers and young adults is a basic prevention strategy of chronic diseases in adulthood [12; 18; 19; 28; 29; 30; 31]. We know that prolonged limitation of physical activity leads to hypodynamia, which by itself is a hazard factor [2; 3; 22; 23; 24; 31]. It destroys body and leads to early disability. If mature organism has disorders caused by physical inactivity, they are reversible (they can be eliminated with the help of appropriate physical training). In part, growing organism can not compensate hypodynamia effect. This physical inactivity is particularly dangerous at early stages of ontogeny and during functional development of young organism. It leads to significant reduction of growth rates and body development, to some problems of biochemical processes, including the functions of cell genetic apparatus [12; 13; 14; 15; 16]. At the same time, there are significant functional abnormalities in brain development. We can see it through the disturbances of higher nervous activity and a low level of brain workability [34; 35]. Meanwhile, lack of exercises becomes the dominant position of the majority of students. Studying schedule and the achievements of modern civilization, creating comfort doom a young man to permanent "muscle starvation" and deprive him of physical activity [12; 18; 19; 32; 33; 34].There are some problems in physical education of students. They are the following: low physical preparedness of boys and girls, almost complete lack of physical education, the need to improve students' health, the presence of accidents during lessons, the need to develop differentiated approach in physical education and its individualization, low attendance and others. The only solution to these problems is development and introduction of modern health systems with the use of informational and communicative technologies in the process of students' physical education at higher school [1; 4; 5; 6; 9; 12; 14].We know that nowadays nearly 90% of young people have health problems. More than 50% of them are at low level of physical preparedness [15; 17; 20; 21; 25; 26; 27]. According to the authors [12; 18; 19; 28; 29; 30; 31], the majority of students have no generated need to take care of their health and no desire to make some physical exercises, including free time [22; 23; 24; 31]. Students are indifferent to the content of obligatory physical education classes [20; 21; 25].In this regard, it is logical to assume that the introduction of new health-improving methods into the process of students' physical education is topical and appropriate. And studying the effect of this application to the level of students' psychophysiological and functional capabilities is a necessary condition for the scientific substantiation of their effectiveness.The aim of our research is to determine the impact of combined use of health-improving fitness methods of Pilates and Bodyflex on the level of psychophysiological and functional capabilities of students at higher school.Materials and methodsDuring the research, we used psychophysiological methods (speed detection of simple and complex reaction in different test modes, level of functional mobility and strength of the nervous system [12; 13]). It was made with the help of "Psychodiagnostic" program [3; 18]. The indices of the number of mistakes in the tests are taken as an indicator of nervous system strength. They were aimed at determining the latency time of a complex reaction in the feedback mode and the imposed rhythm (mistakes in the test "level of functional mobility of nervous processes" in the feedback mode and imposed rhythm). …