Motor skills and functional characteristics of students of different somatotypes

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to study correlation of motor and functional characteristics of students of different somatotypes. Material: it was examined first year students (n=577, 17-18 years old). All students were trained in discipline "Physical education". It was carried out somatotyping. It was considered motor skills and functional characteristics of students. Results: it was determined the reliable differences in values of parameters of motor tests and functional characteristics of students' organism. It is determined that by the end of the first year of study the positive dynamics is registered: in sthenics (in two of seven motor tests); in asthenics (in four tests). It wasn't found the reliable positive changes in group of hypersthenics. Students of sthenic and asthenic somatotypes have higher functional reserves of cardiorespiratory system, than girls of hypersthenics somatotype. Conclusions: constitutional features of motor skills and functional parameters of students of different somatotypes allow to concretize provisions of methodology of planning the individual differentiated training in discipline Physical education.