Influence of exercises in the military equipment on indicators of functional condition and physical preparedness of military services

Abstract

Today, during combat missions, a serviceman spends a lot of time in military equipment. The extra workload requires the development of functional status, physical development, general and applied physical qualities for long-term and effective performance of duties. The content of physical training needs to take into account modern requirements of professional activity and improvement taking into account innovative trends. The purpose of the work is to determine the effectiveness of conducting physical training classes in personal protective equipment in the field. To achieve this goal we used a set of scientific research methods, namely: analysis of scientific and methodological literature, testing, pedagogical experiment, methods of mathematical statistics. The study involved 124 servicemen, evenly divided into control and experimental groups. In total, more than 45 sources of information were analyzed, followed by a final review and 23 sources of literature, including 5 foreign authors, the material of which was processed using general scientific methods. Results. A comparative analysis of the results of EG and KG servicemen after the experiment proved the positive impact of the author’s content of classes on indicators of physical development, functional condition and physical fitness. If at the beginning of the experiment the results of CG servicemen were not significantly better than those of EG servicemen, then at the end - all indicators that assess functional status (2.6–4.4 %) and physical fitness (1.3-–7.6 %) is not significantly better in EG servicemen (p> 0.05). Conclusions. The author’s content of physical training classes significantly contributed to the improvement of results in the performance of exercises that characterize aerobic exercise during performance (p <0.05–0.01), improvement of physical development indicators (17.1 %; p <0.01) and functional state (6.3 %; p <0.05).