АНАЛИЗ НА РАЗЛИКИТЕ ВЪВ ФУНКЦИОНАЛНОТО СЪСТОЯНИЕ НА СТУДЕНИТЕ, ПРАКТИКУВАЩИ РАЗЛИЧНИ СПОРТОВЕ

Abstract

The “sport” discipline is included in the curriculum of all specialties of a Medical University – Varna. The aim of the present study is to analyze how different sport practice affects functional status of students.

The experiment used the “Running Anaerobic Sprint Test"(RAST) – 6 sprints of 35 m, with a break of 10 seconds between them by Mackenzie, 2005. RAST was developed and validated at the University of Wolverhampton, UK to test an athlete's anaerobic performance. The participants conducted the test twice, in the beginning and at the end of the summer of 2022.

The study included 53 students (male) from Medical University of Varna aged 19–23, training beach volleyball (BV, 15), basketball (B, 16) and football (F, 22). From the obtained results by the following indicators have been calculated: speed, acceleration, strength, power and fatigue index.

 The results show the "Power" and "Fatigue Index" indicators, BV seriously lagged behind B and F at the beginning of the experiment. At the end, for all indicators, the greatest increase in the results of BV was reported, which brings their results closer to those of basketball with a statistically insignificant difference. The students from group F shows best performance on the both tests which is expected considering similar loads during their training.

In conclusion, it can be stated that the training in different sports improves the functional status of students with variable values. The addition of beach volleyball to the list of sports offered by MU–Varna will provide greater choice for students, as well as increase the resources of the Department of Physical Education and Sport.