Pilates as an effective means of agriculture specialists training at physical culture lessons at a higher educational establishment (by the example of Izhevsk State Agricultural Academy)

Authors:

Оlga Yu. Druzhinina, Izhevsk State Agricultural Academy, Izhevsk, Russia, ORCID: 0000-0002-5460-7591, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Natalya B. Vershinina, Izhevsk State Agricultural Academy, Izhevsk, Russia, ORCID: 0000-0003-2921-5243, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract:

Nowadays Federal state educational standard of the 3rd generation are used at a higher educational establishment. They demand students’, the future specialists’, physical readiness for social and professional objectives solution. In some research works pilates is considered as health-improving means and the means of motivation among students. However, the essence of pilates, as the means of specialists training, is not revealed. Material. Pilates as the means of training students for the future profession of an agricultural worker. Research methods. Information sources review and analysis, questionnaire, students’ health indices analysis, pedagogical experiment. Results. We created and introduced the methodology of pilates lessons taking into account the applied qualities upbringing among the future specialists. It includes pilates organization at regular physical culture lessons during the academic year. We created the complexes of exercises and visual teaching cards for independent lessons. The organized questionnaire helped to define the opinion of students concerning professionally important qualities of agriculture specialist. The materials of medical check-ups among students helped to reveal the most common problems with students’ health – cardiovascular diseases and locomotor apparatus disorders. Conclusion. As a result of the organized research we proved that pilates is an effective means of agriculture specialists training at physical culture lessons at a higher educational establishment.

Keywords:

pilates, elective courses in physical culture and sport, agriculture specialist, students.

DOI: 10.14526/2070-4798-2022-17-3-124-130.

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