Features of physical fitness in women in the second period of middle age

Abstract

Introduction. Among the obviously actual problems of today, which are the subject of research attention of representatives of various scientific communities, it is worth mentioning the problem of preserving women’s health. The issue of maintaining health and preventing diseases has remained in the focus of scientists’consideration at all stages of socio-economic development. As a result, the scientific field is constantly searching for health technologies that would have a positive impact on the physical condition of people of all genders and ages. Today, it is a priori clear that the prerogative in slowing down the aging process, maintaining health, and increasing physical activity for people of the second mature age belongs to systematic physical exercises.

The purpose of the study is to determine the peculiarities of physical preparedness of women aged 36-45.

Research methods: theoretical analysis and synthesis of literary sources; pedagogical observation, pedagogical testing, experiment, methods of mathematical statistics.

The results. At the first stage of statistical processing of the determined indicators of physical preparedness of women aged 36-45, the indicators were checked for compliance with the law of normal distribution according to the criteria of consistency (according to the criteria of Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Lilliefors and Shapiro-Wilk). It was determined that all indicators of physical preparedness of women aged 36-45, except for the test “lifting the torso in a sit-up, times”, of women aged 36-39 do not comply with the law of normal distribution, which serves as a basis for further statistical processing of the results of testing the physical preparedness of women in the age range of 36-45 years using a number of non-parametric methods. The results of the conducted testing to determine the physical preparedness of women aged 36-39 and 40-45 were assessed in accordance with the standards at four levels – high, suficient, medium, low.

Conclusions. It was determined that all indicators of physical preparedness of women aged 36-45, except for power endurance of torso muscles of women aged 36-39, do not correspond to the law of normal distribution, and all indicators of physical preparedness (power endurance of the muscles of the upper limb; flexibility of the spinal column, mobility of the hip joints and elasticity of the hamstrings, power endurance of the torso muscles) of women aged 36-39 and 40-45 have statistically significant differences at the level of p < 0,001. The results of the research on the level of physical preparedness of women aged 36-39 and 40-45 by the indicators of the tests “torso tilt forward from a sitting position”, “raising the torso to the sitting position”, “bending and straightening the arms in a lying position”, “pulling up in a lying position” reveal the negative dynamics of changes in the physical preparedness of the latter with increasing age, and were also subject to evaluation by four levels projected on the standards – high, suficient, medium, low: among women aged 36-39, 53,58% of people showed an average level of strength endurance of torso muscles, and 46,42% of people had a low level, while in the contingent of women aged 40-45, 66,67% of people had a low level, and 33,33% of people had an average level.