Hygienic basics of hardening the body in the system of independent physical culture classes for students

At the present stage, there is a significant deterioration in the health of students of higher education institutions, which is due to a complex of factors, among which the leading place is occupied by a decrease in the body's resistance to colds. Frequent respiratory infections negatively affect the functional state of the immune system of student youth and contradict the main tasks of the academic discipline "Physical Education", aimed at strengthening health and increasing the level of physical development of students. Modern socio-economic, political and educational transformations necessitate the implementation of scientifically based approaches to improving the system of physical education of students. The article substantiates the feasibility of including mapping procedures in the content of independent physical education classes as an effective means of improving health and increasing the body's resistance to acute respiratory diseases. For this purpose, a pedagogical experiment was conducted with the participation of students of different faculties of a higher education institution, the course and results of which are presented in the work. The results of the study showed that the timing of reaching the stage of complete dousing of the body with cold water in the experimental group students was individual and depended on the tolerance of the cold load. After the experiment, a significant decrease in the number of colds with various clinical manifestations, in particular with an increase in body temperature, was recorded in the experimental group compared to the control group. The use of hardening procedures in the process of independent physical education classes during the academic year contributed to the strengthening of students' health, increasing the body's resistance to the effects of low temperatures and reducing the level of cold morbidity among students of different faculties of the university.