Maintaining the Health of Professional Folk Dancers in Conditions of Physical Recreation

Research on the health issues of folk dancers has not been sufficiently developed. A sociological survey of the artists of the National Academic Ensemble of Folk Dance "Joc" from Moldova on the problems of a healthy lifestyle, diet, rest regime, physical and mental state, the attitude of respondents to physical activity in fitness clubs, readiness to engage in physical recreation to improve their condition, prevention diseases, allowed to determine the types of physical recreation and fitness programs recommended for dancers.

Budo in Physical Recreation as a Form of Rapprochement to Nature

Martial arts, or budo in Japanese, are practiced recreationally on a global scale. Is there a relation between the regular practice/training of various fighting arts and the attitude of these people towards the natural world? Does budo educate in this direction? Representatives of various fighting arts (n = 145) were examined using a diagnostic survey. It was found that the attitude of the respondents to nature and ecology was positive for the majority of the respondents (almost 74%). This applied to both men and women and was not determined by the level of education. The type of martial art or combat sport practiced did not differentiate this attitude.

Implications of Argentine Tango for Health Promotion, Physical Well-Being as Well as Emotional, Personal and Social Life on a Group of Women Who Dance

Background: The aim of the research was to determine the effect that dance has on the promotion of health, physical well-being, as well as the emotional, personal and social life of women who dance. In addition, the impact of the physical activity of long, often all-night dancing events on women’s health was investigated. This included possible disturbances in their monthly cycle and circadian rhythm, taking into account symptoms of biological rhythm disturbances. Methods: The study involved 214 women: tango group: 109, sedentary group: 105. The Mann–Whitney U and chi2 tests were used to compare the groups, as well as multiple ordinal regression to analyse individual predictors of missed menstrual periods. Results: The tango vs. sedentary groups did not differ in the duration of menstrual bleeding, the degree of pain during menstruation, the regularity of menstruation, the number of regular monthly cycles per year, and amenorrhea. Intermenstrual spotting was more common in dancers (tango 12.8% vs. sedentary 4.8%; p = 0.038). The frequency of missed periods was not increased by any of the assessed aspects. In 59.6% of female dancers, milongas caused disturbances in circadian rhythms, including extreme fatigue and drowsiness (36.7%), 66.0% of the dancers mentioned only positive aspects of Argentine Tango’s impact on their personal life. Conclusions: tango plays a positive and multifaceted role in the lives of dancers and fulfils the need for social contact. The physical effort put into this form of physical activity does not significantly affect the menstrual cycle, and thus the reproductive functions, and can be recommended as an attractive and safe form of physical recreation for women.

Examining the Health Outcomes and Happiness Levels that Result from Engaging in Physical Recreation: A Study on University Students

This study aims to examine the relationship between university students’ perceived health outcomes and happiness levels that result from engaging in recreational activities. The study evaluates this relationship using certain variables. The data were gathered from 652 students from various universities in Turkey. Appropriate sampling methods were used. The initial findings indicate that the highest score was obtained in the ‘improvement condition’ of health outcomes among university students. It shows that they are more likely to engage with physical activities for health purposes. Furthermore, all sub-dimensions of PHORS and the happiness scale significantly differed according to income and active-passive participation variables. This study further demonstrates a significant positive relationship between perceived health outcomes sub-scales and happiness among the students.

Formation of health culture of student youth

In students ' years there is active intellectual, physical development and socialization of the person. It is known that in Ukraine among the students there is a tendency to the growth of various diseases, deterioration of functional reserves of the body, the presence of different defects of the musculoskeletal system, reducing the level of physical preparedness and the like. In the process of analyzing scientific researches and publications, it is determined that different authors pay close attention to the problem of preserving and strengthening the health of modern students, the formation of a culture of health, the creation of health saving educational environment in higher education institutions. The common opinion of researchers is that the need for health should integrate in the cultural need and become a norm of personality life. The main purpose of this work is analysis and synthesis of scientific sources and results of researches of individual authors on the problem of formation of a culture of students ' health. Theoretical comprehension of this problem gave an opportunity to define the essence and content of culture of health as a whole and for students. According to this we believe that physical education is a powerful mechanism of forming a culture of students ' health. In our opinion, an integral part of the formation of students ' health culture is the use of different types and forms of motive activity for active recreation, health and fitness classes and physical recreation in compliance with recommendations on the duration and intensity of motor activity during the week, as well as the requirements to physical condition, a healthy lifestyle. Prospects for further development see in a more in-depth analysis of the formation of health culture of students of different specialties.

HEALTH-PROMOTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE CONDITIONS OF DISTANCE LEARNING

Introduction. The actuality of the study is defined by the need to find a way to intensify health and recreational activities caused by decrease of physical activity and student health level in the context of distance education as required by quarantine limitations. The aim of the study is to scientifically substantiate the need for health and recreational activities in the conditions of remote education of future specialists on the basis of physical culture and sports and the classification of recreational activities. Material and methods are based on the application of competence, synergetic, systemic and axiological approaches to creating the foundations of health and recreational activities in the context of distance learning. Our study uses a set of philosophical, pedagogical and sociological methods and theories, including the problem of socialization of the individual and the adaptation of persons with disabilities to the social environment, and so on. The material of the research was health and recreational activities conducted among students of higher educational institutions of the Poltava region (using the nature reserve fund) and their impact on improving the physical and mental health of young people. Results. The study for the first time singles out and scientifically substantiates the conditions for optimizing health and recreational activities in the system of training future specialists in physical culture and sports, reveals ways to implement the tasks of physical recreation in quarantine restrictions; Didactic provisions of the organization of a healthy way of life of youth have got further research. Conclusion. The system of health and recreational activities covers two main structural blocks: independent organization of physical exercises (morning hygienic gymnastics, walks, short-distance tourism) in the fresh air; organizational group classes of motor activity at recreational facilities in permitted quarantine zones in compliance with all rules and regulations of sanitary safety. The human-nature system is considered by us as a set of components that interact with each other to achieve the goal - the introduction of a healthy lifestyle and the restoration of all functional systems of the body.

Physical education and healthy lifestyle

Physical Culture, as a part of general culture, can be defined as a human activity, which, through its knowledge ABOUT and FOR physical exercise within its areas (physical education, sports and physical recreation), allows the transformation of personality from real to possible. Physical Education, as one of the areas of Physical Culture, is therefore a very important educational link. It is particularly important in anera characterized by fast technological advances and technicalism that is rapidly introducing people to virtual reality. Hence, we emphasize that Physical Education, with its knowledge ABOUT and FOR physical exercise, builds the basis for a healthy, active and long life in young people. This is possible due to the fact that Physical Education, based on the Theory of Theoanthropocentrism, sees physical exercise as a beneficial body activity necessary for man and stems from the relationship to a man as a person, not an individual. The increasingly present virtual reality is in complete harmony with the sedentary culture, increasingly dominant not only in Western civilization. This undoubtedly leads to "active" hypokinesia, the root of many disturbing changes and health problems. Anthropological research conducted in Serbia and AP Vojvodina have confirmed that the number of people who regularly engage in physical exercise is decreasing. That is why we point out the importance of Physical Education, which, with its knowledge of how and why to exercise, builds the awareness of the necessity for physical exercise, as well as of the possibility of seeing every physical activity as physical exercise.