ORGANIZATIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES OF PHYSICAL CULTURE AND HEALTH ACTIVITIES IN RESORT-RECREATION INSTITUTIONS, AND ITS IMPACT ON IMPROVING HEALTH OF VACATIONERS

Abstract

The main importance of physical culture and health activities in resort-recreational institutions is that when using physical culture means, the specific influence of resort factors is combined with the health-improving effect of physical exercises. Today, scientists do not pay enough attention to physical culture at health resorts, so, the authors of the article set a purpose to analyze the organizational and methodical foundations of physical culture and health work, to outline certain recommendations for organizing and conducting relevant training on various types of health-improving physical culture, and to investigate experimentally the influence of physical culture and health activities on the functional state and overall health of vacationers of different sexes and age categories. Materials and methods. In the experimental study conducted in November–December 2023 on the basis of the Derenivska Kupil health resort complex (Ukraine, Transcarpathian region), 30 people of the second mature and elderly age (28 men and 32 women) were involved – 12 men at the age of 36–60, 22 women at the age of 36–55, 16 men at the age of 61–74, and 10 women at the age of 56–74, who were engaged in physical culture and health activities of various types. In the process of working on the article, methods of review and analysis of scientific literature, generalization and synthesis of previously accumulated knowledge, pedagogical observation, comparative analysis, interpretation and classification, as well as anthropometric, physiological, mathematical and statistical methods of experimental research were used. Results. When developing programs for physical culture training at recreational resorts, one should be guided by a comprehensive approach to their functionality, highlighting as a basis the renovation and improvement of a person’s psychophysical capabilities. The article emphasizes the expansion of the arsenal of various forms of health-improving physical culture that can be effectively applied in resort conditions. The authors mean such forms as morning hygienic gymnastics, improving walking and wellness jogging, various types of fitness, aerobics or rhythmic gymnastics, health tourism of various types, bathing and swimming, aquafitness and gymnastics in water, sports games or game types of recreation. The authors researched and analyzed the main directions of organizing active recreation, physical culture and health-improving work in the Derenivska Kupil health resort complex, distinguishing among them the walking and running, as well as swimming training according to differentiated programs designed for weekly and monthly cycles of active wellness. The results of experimental study, conducted for the first time in the conditions of the resort-recreation institution with the aim of identifying the health-improving effect of organized physical activity on different sexes and age categories people, confirmed the existence of such an effect and showed that regular physical training has a positive impact on the vacationer’s functional state and vital tone. Conclusions. The article comprehensively researches the most urgent and practically important problems of the organization and methodical support of physical culture work in resort-recreational institutions, the directions and possibilities of solving these problems with using a modern theoretical and methodological base, raises and substantiates many methodological and organizational issues of development and conducting health-improving training in resort-recreational institutions. It has been experimentally proven that, subject to compliance with all methodical recommendations, physical training at resorts can fully ensure the solution of the tasks set before it; contribute to the improvement of the health of vacationers.