COMPARATIVE STUDY REGARDING THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE PHYSICAL TRAINING AND THE EFFORT CAPACITY OF THE FEMALE STUDENTS, PARTICIPATING IN THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION COURSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Abstract

In the paradigm of the modern pedagogy, a "physically educated" person is a person: with a good physical condition, aware of the importance of practicing physical exercise in order to maintain and strengthen health, keen to move and who enjoys the physical effort, which promotes an active, dynamic, healthy and balanced life style as a social value, which develops social relations.1
Starting from this premise, we propose in this paper to identify the extent to which the objectives of physical education in higher education, related to physical, somatic and functional parameters, are achieved through the participation of female students in aerobics, fitness, volleyball and table tennis courses.
The hypothesis of our experimental approach: The means specific to each sports discipline listed above, used in the physical education lessons with the female students in the higher education, will influence differently the level of the physical training and the somatic and functional parameters of them, some of the sports being more efficient in this regard.
The research methods used: the analysis of the specialized literature, the pedagogical observation, the method of the tests, the pedagogical experiment, the statistical method of data processing and the graphical method of presenting the results.
Subjects: In our study, were involved 80 students from first year enrolled in aerobics, fitness, volleyball and table tennis courses, 20 for each sports discipline mentioned.
Results: We recorded the results aimed at the somatic, motor and functional evaluation both at the beginning of the academic year 2018-2019 and at the end of it, after completing the specific programs of the four sport disciplines.
Conclusions: The sports disciplines included in our experimental study had different effects at the level of the investigated parameters, the specific means of aerobics having by far the most significant contributions to the somatic and functional progress that the girls, in general, and the students of our sample in particular, wish from a motor activity.