Comparative analysis of Soviet GTO complex, reinstated modern AEPCS GTO system and relevant foreign physical culture and sport systems

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Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury №2 2017, pp.52-54

Dr.Hab. V.A. Kabachkov1
E.A. Zyurin1
M.D. Osminin2
1All-Russian Research Institute of Physical Culture and Sport, Moscow
2School №1, Budgetary General Education Institution, Kulebaki city, Nizhniy Novgorod

Key issues of the national health system have been given increasing priority for the last decade, and the physical cultural and sports initiatives being implemented nowadays is one more attempt in the process. To improve the efficiency of the physical education system geared to mobilize the human resources and improve health of the nation, the government decided to reinstate the Physical Culture and Sports “Ready for Labour and Defence” (GTO) Complex. The article considers the newly emerging global trend of large-scale organized physical cultural and sport systems being designed to support the national health improvement policies and makes a comparative analysis of the test standards of the relevant foreign systems versus the historic Soviet GTO Complex and the reinstated modern ARPCS GTO system. The comparative analysis of the physical qualities test standards applied by different physical cultural and sports promotion systems under the study versus that of the modern All-Russian Physical Culture and Sports “Ready for Labour and Defence” (GTO) Complex showed that the modern GTO system is relatively simple in some aspects (versus the German system, for instance) albeit difficult in the other aspects, particularly in application to the adult population, and the difficulties may be of restrictive effect on its popularity. The modern GTO system also lacks efficient and vivid motivators to lure broad population to the physical training and sports movement in the new format.

Keywords: GTO Complex, health, test, standards.

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