Substantiation of the method of complex-combined health-improving physical training exercises with elderly age women

Abstract

Over the past decades there has been an aging population, an increase in the number of people of retirement age in the population, combined with an increase in their life expectancy. However, women of elderly age are characterized by high incidence rate, the presence of one or several chronic diseases, the consequences of previous injuries, physical defects and involuntary changes in the organs and systems of the body. These circumstances necessitate the search of effective methods for the rehabilitation of older women by means of recreational physical training. The method of complex-combined health-improving physical training exercises for elderly age women is developed, exercises are based on the combined use of a wide range of means and methods of physical recreation, physical rehabilitation, supplemented with preventive and wellness activities, affecting the body as a single complex of morphological systems. One of the most important issues is to define an optimal load and to choose movement regimes during these exercises. Basic principles of Strategies «Recommendations on physical training work organization with citizenry of middle and elderly age group» of Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation (2013) are adapted for elderly age women. Big enough age rate of investigated group (56-74 years), great variety of disorders which are typical for elderly age women, different motivational orientation, health-improving physical training exercises with elderly age women show the necessity of this adaptation.