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At the present stage of development and implementation of means of health improving fitness into health improving sports activities of women first mature age the big variety of such means is notable, and it is necessary to highlight water fitness among those popular means. For effective management of the training process in health improving fitness consideration of the peculiarities of physical development of women first mature age is required as one of the main markers of changes under the influence of the proposed means. The aim of the research was to systematize information on the peculiarities of indicators of physical development of women first mature age, depending on the type of their physique in the process of doing water fitness. Materials and methods of research. The following research techniques were used in the process of research: analysis and generalization of data in scientific and methodical literature, systematization, anthropometry, methods of mathematical statistics (sampling method, method of averages, selected data fit to normal law of distribution by Shapiro-Wilk criterion). The study involved 46 women aged 21 to 35 who do water fitness, among them 58.7 % (n=27) are 26 to 30 years old, 23.9 % (n=11) are less than 25 years old, and 17.4 % (n=8) more than 30 years old. The results of the research are identified advantages in the group of women with harmonious physical development. In accordance with the peculiarities of the distribution of women by body type, the vast majority of them were characterized by normosthenic body type. It turned out that the chest dolichomorphism occurs in women of asthenic type, mesomorphism is typical for women of normosthenic type, and brachymorphismoccurs in women with hypersthenic type. At the same time, according to the ratio of body weight and length a deficiency of body weight is to be noted in the examined asthenic women, but in women of normosthenic and hypersthenic type, this ratio is within the norm. Certain peculiarities should be taken into account for the development of means of influence in the process of fitness classes.