Influence of Physical Education Classes on the Level of Health and Fitness Competencies of Students

After Ukraine gained independence in 1991, the country underwent a complete reorganization of all aspects of life, and accordingly, the education system. There is an urgent need to restructure the system of physical education, especially at higher education institutions (HEI), which has accumulated a large number of unresolved problems in the field of physical education of young students in a short period of historical independence. The article forms a new scientific direction that defines a comprehensive solution to the problem of introducing the methodology for students' physical education, which provides guaranteed achievement of the projected results in the discipline "Physical Education" into the educational process of agricultural HEI, namely: knowledge, skills, physical qualities, general and special physical fitness, motivational and value-based attitude to a healthy lifestyle and one's own health, the acquisition of physical culture and health competencies by students. One of the criteria for the effectiveness of the methodology for physical education is the formed health and fitness competencies of students. The purpose of the article is to study the effectiveness of classes conducted according to the developed methodology for physical education for students to acquire health and fitness competencies. The results of the research showed high efficiency of the methodology for physical education, in comparison with the traditional system: the motivational, cognitive, and activity components in the experimental groups revealed the vast majority of students with high and sufficient levels of readiness for physical activity, and in control groups - with average and low levels.