The age of peak competitive performance is particularly important as the entire sports career in each sport is planned on its basis. Depending on the sport and gender of the athlete, the age of peak competitive performance varies considerably. The objective of the study - to determine the age indicators of the wrestlers who participated in the World Championships, depending on the place taken and the weight group. We have studied 332 sports careers of the freestyle and Greko-Roman male wrestlers from 1st to 8th ranks who participated in the World Championships 2017, 2018 and 2019. The following indicators are analyzed: the average age, the average age of the international career start, the average age of first success and the proportion of athletes who achieved success at junior level. Results. The average age of the wrestlers is 26.5 ± 3.6 years: the medalists are slightly younger – 26.3 ± 3.4 years, and non-medalists are older than 26.7 ± 3.8 years. The analysis of the distribution of the age of peak competitive performance of athletes-medalists has shown the following results: there are 67.7 % of medalist among the athletes who are 22-28 years old, 11.8% among those who are younger than 23 years old and only 26.6% among those who are older than 28 years. More than half (53.4%) of medalists achieved success being juniors, while for non-medalists this proportion is only 38.2%. The linear regression coefficient between the age and the weight of athletes is positive and is equal to 0.47 kg per year. The results obtained on the medalists show that the period for achieving the peak competitive performance is limited and quite a few athletes can succeed beyond a certain period of age.

Physical rehabilitation, along with the pharmaceutical treatment, is one of the main components of the recovery and the maintenance of health of the patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The treatment and rehabilitation results of the physical therapy largely depend on the proper use of its means, requiring the knowledge of its principles. The aim of the study was to establish the means and principles of the physical therapy in COPD, the use of which allows achieving the optimal rehabilitation result. The objective – to establish the means and principles of the physical therapy in COPD, the use of which allows achieving the optimal rehabilitation result. Methods. Literature sources for the last 10 years, selected from the electronic databases of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Russian Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU, Web of Science, PubMed, PEDro. Results. The existing principles of rehabilitation of pulmonologic patients, including those with the COPD were analyzed. The list of physical rehabilitation principles in COPD was formed: a common understanding of the pathogenesis and the clinical disease, influential mechanisms, the medical rehabilitation help effects of physical therapy means; the development and the implementation of an individualized physical therapy program taking into account the peculiarities of the disease of each patient; an early application of physical therapy means; phasing, continuity and sequence of the physical therapy; a complexity, composed and combined application of the physical therapy; an availability of the physical therapy in any conditions of its implementation; an integration of the physical therapy means into the multidisciplinary rehabilitation help; the knowledge of rehabilitation needs, encouragement and active participation of the patient; the focusing of the physical therapy means at the realization of self-care capabilities, a retrieval to a productive labour activity of the patient; involving family or close relatives of the patient to the performing of his or her physical therapy program. Conclusions. The principles of the rehabilitation of pulmonologic patients mentioned above are presented. The list of physical rehabilitation principles in COPD is suggested.

The impact of new socio-economic, educational and professional demands of today creates the need for study and scientific analysis of communicative competence of specialists in physical culture and sports, it will allow to effectively perform professional tasks and actively interact in their future professional activities. Aim: on the basis of psychological-experimental research to analyze the levels of development of communicative competence in future professionals in physical culture and sports. Methods and organization of research. Theoretical - analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization. Empirical - experiment, observation, conversation, expert evaluation, questionnaire, testing. Results of research and discussion. A study of the levels of communicative competence and its structural components of future specialists in physical culture and sports depending on gender, specialty. Conclusions. Psychodiagnostics of levels of communicative competence and some of its components in students gave the following results: future specialists in physical culture and sports are characterized mostly by medium and low levels of development of communicative competence.

Introduction. Developed communicative competence in the coaching profession allows to interact effectively in future professional activities, interpersonal communication and involves the subject’s mastery of strategies of psychological influence and constructive behaviors in interaction. Aim is to analyze different approaches to determining the structural components of communicative competence and to describe the author’s structure of communicative competence of the future coach. Material and methods. Theoretical - analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization. Empirical- observations, questionnaires, psychological and pedagogical experiment. Results. Applying a systematic approach to the analysis of the structure of communicative competence, we identified four main components: cognitive (cognitive), communicative-speech, social-perceptual and interactive. Conclusions. The proposed and described author’s structure of communicative competence of the future coach contains four components: cognitive, communicativespeech, social-perceptual, interactive, which give the opportunity to reveal the essence and features of the future coach

The rampant development of Ukrainian amateur football encourages scientists to conduct study concerning the motivation of sportsmen to train and participate in competitions. The football players in the endeavor to succeed, to satisfy the necessity to be a member of a team integrated by common aims, interests and motifs. The aim of our study was to reveal the peculiarities of the influence of motivation to play football of amateur sportsmen of FT of Kyiv on their competitive activity. The amateur football players of "Stina" FT, 1 League, Kyiv and "Darnytsia" FT, 2 League, Kyiv took voluntary participation in the study, aged 20 to 45 years of each club, respectively, a total of 40 sportsmen. We studied the issue of the influence of motivation on competitive activity in amateur football with the help of the following method: "Motives for playing sports" by A.V. Shaboltas and the test "Motivation for success" by T. Ehlers. In accordance with the study, the main motives of sports activities of football amateurs of both teams are the following: the motive to succeed in sports, the motive of physical self-affirmation, sports-cognitive motive, which testify to the goal orientation of amateur football players in the process of the game on the field. Among the dominant motives of "Stina" FT amateur sportsmen are the motive of success in sports; motive of physical self-affirmation, civic and patriotic motive, which allows the team to maintain quite high rating in the standings during 2019. An inexpressive motivational pole of the football players of "Stina" FT has a tendency to succeed 40%, compared with a tendency to fail 20%. Motivation among 70% of "Darnytsia" FT players is focused on avoiding failures, which is evidence of unformed positive game motivation, volition to avoid discomfort, related to the possible failures. Motivation to succeed prevails among the players of "Stina" FT, which is 80% of the team. We observe that the percentage of sportsmen whose motivation is focused on success is higher among "Stina" FT football players of "Darnytsia" FT. The amateur football players of 1 League have a well-formed and well-ordered motivation to succeed. Leading place in the hierarchy of motives takes the motivation for success, which is related to self-determination of team players.