Effect of yoga exercises on the senior schoolchildren’s biological age during physical education

Abstract

Background. In connection with the problem of deteriorating Ukrainians’ health scientists provide a number of recommendations among which the most relevant one is to create conditions for regular physical activity in order to strengthen health, considering the interests, desires, abilities and individual characteristics of every student and to develop a new scientific, methodological and educational support for the process of the younger generation’s motor activity. They emphasize the positive impact of non-traditional means on pupils’ health and recommend they should be introduced into the physical education process. One of such means is yoga. The objective. The aim of the article is bringing out the results of the research on revealing the expediency and effective impact of yoga on the senior schoolchildren’s health using interesting and non-traditional diagnostic methods – determining the biological age as health indicator.Methods. The success of the experimental research was ensured by the clarity of the construction of the process of physical education of schoolchildren and the selection of informative research methods. Results. After the implementation of experimental yoga exercises into the process of senior schoolchildren’s physical education a higher improvement of the biological age in EG rather than in CG was revealed. In EG schoolchildren the lowest rate of biological age was 20 years, and the highest – 42 years, i.e. the indicators decreased. The lowest biological age indicator was recorded in CG – 22 years, and the highest – 51.Conclusion. Such results testify the effectiveness of the influence of experimental yoga exercises, the use of which has positively brought the senior schoolchildren’s biological age to the calendar one.