Analysis of the Target Component of Sporting and Mass Participation Events in Higher Military Educational Establishment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Abstract

Physical fitness of servicepeople is the basis of their combat readiness. Therefore, a lot of attention is paid to its providing from the first years of service of them. However, practice shows that as a result of a decrease in interest in physical culture and sports in modern society, people without prior sports experience and with a level of physical readiness which does not meet the requirements of combat training, and especially the military activities of military specialists, enter military educational institutions. Those psychological and training methods adopted in the Armed forces nowadays may only  improve the readiness of future officers to the minimum necessary level, but they are not enough to form a conscious attitude to physical training in servicepeople, they fail in creating a stable motivation to maintain physical fitness at the required level throughout the entire service.

Physical improvement of cadets is carried out in several organizational forms. Every of theese has different potential in terms of upbringing the physical culture of future officers. On the point of certain features of organization and carrying out physical training lessons the highest possibilities owns sports mass work. That is why we decided to examine the state of sports mass work in the military educational institutions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To find out its’ pedagogical potential efficiency in training cadets personal physical culture – the foundation for their long term physical activity, in particular, formation of a military professional as a whole.

We have found that, a lack of a specifity in guidance documents on the training of military personnel and absence of a single well-defined accurate target set of sports work in military schools has led to demotivation and making emphasize only on points, estimates and taken places and, most importantly, loss of connection with the educational process.

The main conclusion of our study is that in the present form of sports-mass work in military educational institutions is not able to cultivate the personality of a cadet, to form his personal physical culture and valuable attitude to physical training.