Study of students’ volitional qualities as one of the aspects of personal achievements in physical culture and sports activities

The paper presents a study of strong-willed qualities of students, as one of the aspects of personal achievements in physical culture and sports as well as pedagogical conditions that develop various volitional qualities: purposefulness, determination and courage, perseverance, discipline, self-control and independence. The author reveals factors that contribute to strong-willed education in the process of physical culture and sports activities. The paper describes the experimental technique developed and introduced into the process of physical education, aimed at strong-willed qualities development. The basis of the experimental methodology for students’ strong-willed qualities development in sports and sports activities are various pedagogical methods that ensure the need for a systematic and gradual overcoming of objective and subjective difficulties while solving proposed tasks. They work under certain requirements: the increasing complexity of obstacles; the consistency of the magnitude of the difficulty with the capabilities of the practitioner in overcoming it; fulfillment of tasks in conditions of overcoming the state of fatigue; use of competitive method of training; complication of external conditions of activity; conscious activity development. Creating specially organized pedagogical conditions made it possible to develop students’ necessary volitional qualities, to increase motivation to engage in physical culture and sports activities, to acquire a positive experience of personal achievements in physical culture activities.