The Role of Physical Education in the Professional Activity of Teaching Staff

The work revealed the influence of the negative factors of professional activity on the health state and working capacity of the teachers of higher military educational establishments; substantiated the role and importance of physical exercise for the reduction of the negative impact of professional activity and the improvement of the mental capacity of teaching staff at the theoretical level. The study determined that the main negative factors of the professional activity of teaching staff that worsened their performance included a low level of motor activity, high nervous-emotional tension, overwork of the intellectual sphere. The research established that the main task of the physical education of the teachers is to increase and constantly improve the level of their general physical fitness. The efficiency of the professional activity of the teachers depends on the degree of development of the following physical qualities: strength, static endurance of the trunk muscles, and the level of general endurance. Ensuring the formation of the core and improving the blood supply to the brain, static endurance of the trunk muscles (back and abdominal muscles) increases the efficiency of the teachers' activity and reduces the risk of occupational diseases.