Title:Improvement of Health and Morphofunctional Status of Law Enforcement
Officers of Older Age Groups during the Organized Motor Activities
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Author(s): Oleksandr Lutskyi, Ivan Okhrimenko, Maryna Halych, Viktoriia Lytvyn, Olena Kudermina, Maksym Hrebeniuk and Ihor Bloshchynskyi*
Affiliation:
- Foreign
Languages Department, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi,
Ukraine
Keywords:
Health, physical development, functional status, physical exercise, instructor officers of older age groups, law enforcement.
Abstract:
Background: With age, there is a tendency for the health of law enforcement officers to
deteriorate. This especially applies to instructor officers, whose professional activity is characterized
by a significant decrease in the volume of motor activity, overloading of the intellectual
sphere, and high neuro-emotional stress.
Objective: The aim of the research is to investigate the influence of recreational and healthpromoting
training sessions with physical exercise on the health, physical development, and functional
status of instructor officers of older age groups.
Methods: 62 instructor officers (aged 40-45) of various academic disciplines took part in the research.
The instructors of the experimental group (EG, n = 30) were engaged in physical exercises
in accordance with the authors’ program of recreational and health-promoting training sessions; the
instructors of the control group (CG, n = 32) attended the training sessions according to the existing
physical training program.
Results: It was found that at the end of the experiment, the studied indicators of the EG instructor
officers were significantly better than those of the CG ones, according to the indicators of body
weight, Quetelet index, the vital capacity of lungs, vital index, strength index, heart rate, arterial
blood pressure, Robinson index, and level of physical health.
Conclusion: It was established that systematic recreational and health-promoting training sessions
have a positive effect on the health level of the instructor officers of older age groups. This will allow
them to carry out instructional activities at a high professional level and ensure resistance to
adverse factors of professional activities.