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HISTORY OF FITNESS DEVELOPMENT AS A KIND ОF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF THE POPULATION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 8 (173). P. 112-116

In the article we considered the history of fitness development as kind of motive activity of the population and sociocultural event of XX century. There are definitions of aerobics and fitness. We compare and summarise the experience of fitness-industry development in Russia and in the USA. K. Cooper, J. Fond and J. Miller are the founders of fitness in the United States. We show the periodization of historical steps of the fitness development. L. V. Sidneva and O. S. Slutsker are the creators of the organized system of fitness industry in Russia. We describe the activities of Russian fitness-aerobics Federation in the modern period. Also we characterize the experience of the implementation of fitness in the system of physical education of students. We determine the place and the role of modern fitness in the system of the health-improvement physical culture.

Keywords: fitness, physical activity, physical culture, aerobics, healthy lifestyle, fitness-industry

HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF FITNESS’ AND ART-FENCING INTERACTION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 9 (186). P. 90-96

The article regards the history of physical activity types that are new to Russia and that gained popularity among the youth irrespective of gender differences. It is very popular among young people. They are new kinds of sport. The study subject is fitness and art-fencing – the new types of sports disciplines, attracting students with its accessibility, entertainment, connection of sport and art. The article presents the historical overview of the emergence and the development of art-fencing and fitness in global and Russian practice. There are common aspects of these new kinds of sport. Also in the article we can see its cooperation. The general characteristic features of these new types of sports activities, the degree of their interaction and enrichment are selected. In the article authors advice to use five groups of training items for common kinds of sport and for fitness and art-fencing itself which direct to forceful, coordination and willed features in common sportsmanship. Five conditional groups of training means, that are common to both fitness and art-fencing and that are aimed at the development of strength, coordination, strong-willed and restorativerelaxing qualities in the general physical preparation of athletes, are identified and recommended. Fitness and artfencing have a socializing effect on the behavioral attitudes of young people.

Keywords: аrtistic fencing, fitness, aerobics, common sportsmanship, sporting competition