Стриева Любовь Юрьевна

The article is devoted to understanding sports as a sociocultural phenomenon, covering all levels of modern society. The goal of big sport is fundamentally different from the goal of mass sports: it is the achievement of the highest possible sports results or victories in the framework of the largest sports competitions. The current shift in the priorities of the “health preservation” paradigm to the “health formation” paradigm puts the value of sport (both in the sphere of higher achievements and mass scale) to the position of the most promising way of overcoming the social and spiritual crisis of modern society.

The relevance of the study of physical culture and sports as a means of optimizing the training of professional and pedagogical personnel is conditioned by the fact that the health and physical preparedness of students and students is the most important criteria for the physical, social and cultural potential of the individual and society as a whole. Physical and sports education focuses the entire pedagogical system of professional education on a strategically new target approach today the formation of physical culture of the individual. Athletic and sports activities should be aimed at the formation of socially and professionally important qualities of future specialists, since these qualities determine the productivity of a wide range of social and professional activities of a young person.