Weightlifting as a means of increasing the physical fitness of students

Introduction and purpose of the study. Nowadays, both scientists and practitioners are sounding the alarm about the decline in the level of physical fitness of students. In the conditions of a full-scale war unleashed against Ukraine by the Russian Federation, this is unacceptable. To improve the situation, a large number of scientific studies are carried out, in which the use of certain types of physical activity in the educational process of physical education is recorded indicators of physical fitness. However, researchers continue to ignore the issue of using weightlifting tools during physical education classes. The purpose of the study is to establish the features of the formation of indicators of physical fitness of students in the educational process of physical education, which is based on weightlifting. Material and methods. The study involved 20 students. The age of the study participants is 17-19 years. Diagnostics of physical fitness was carried out using tests proposed in the State Tests and Standards for Assessing Physical Fitness of the Population of Ukraine. Students of the experimental group attended physical education classes in the amount of 4 teaching hours per week during the first and second years of study. For statistical processing of the obtained data, the Student's t-test for dependent samples was used. Conclusions. It has been established that physical education classes, which are based on the use of weightlifting exercises, are effective for increasing the level of physical fitness of students on the tests "running 100 meters", "pull-ups on the bar", "sitting in one minute", "long jump from a standstill", "shuttle run 4×9 meters", "leaning forward from a sitting position" and are not effective for developing endurance.