The purpose of our study was to determine the level of motor activity in students, as well as to promote the formation of motivation to engage in physical sports. University students (n= 54, age 17-21 years) divided into 2 groups according to physical activity and sex. For the research, the self-developed questionnaire was used and processed by the statistical method with determining the relative parity indexes. The results of the research allowed studying the student's attitude to physical education in universities and independently, to assess the subjective state of health of different grade students, the reasons for abandoning physical exercises. The results are consistent with satisfaction with classes at university and the reasons for abandoning additional classes. Girls prefer classes of non-traditional types of PE that are not included in the program of the higher educational institutions and require significant financial investments that students cannot afford. Male students prefer sports games, and although they are included in the program, there are no free sections. Students pay little attention to physical activity, thus they do not have the formed need for independent exercises in physical culture, and most of them prefer to be engaged in non-traditional health-improving forms of physical culture. The amount of motor activity physical education classes showed a clear training effect and can be considered as one of the benchmarks of the compensatory role of classes in eliminating hypodynamic. Also in the article, the authors consider motivation as a dynamic process of continuous choice and decision-making, based on weighing behavioral alternatives, explaining the purposefulness, organization, and sustainability of holistic measures to achieve a certain goal acts as an incentive to act with a certain motive.
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