The article presents the results of rate hygienic assessment for sambo-practicing athletes, and shows the expediency of amateur combative sport involving students of higher educational institutions as an alternative or an elective course to traditional approaches is showny. During the research, 2 experienced groups were formed from among the students of Barnaul at the age of 19-21 years, engaged in sambo on an amateur level for 2-3 years, engaged mainly in anaerobic load, aimed at increasing muscle mass and as a control group, students, not engaged in any kind of sport, while related to the main group of health. As a result, it was found that physical performance and physical fitness indicators in most cases are statistically significantly higher in the experimental groups, compared to students who do not engage in any kind of sport, while belonging to the main group of health in relation to physical training, somatometric and somatoscopic the indices determined in the two control and experimental groups showed that students of sambo-wrestlers do not have pathology of the arch of the foot. Physiometric parameters reflecting the functioning of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems of the organism showed great training of the systems in the representatives of the first control group, which was reflected in the optimal values of arterial pressure and statistically significantly greater vital capacity of the lungs, which is due to prolonged aerobic and intermittent physical exertion. Thus, it seems promising to introduce the training process of fighting sambo in the physical activity of student youth.