Coordination training of construction students as the basis for increasing psychophysical readiness for the profession
Authors:   National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Pozdeeva Elena A. 
Published: December 2024

A review of dissertation research devoted to professional applied physical training of civil engineering students showed that there are issues that require additional research. Today, the requirements for the civil engineer profession have been significantly updated; the mental and intellectual load on a specialist has increased; the decrease in students’ motivation to engage in basic sports requires the development of new pedagogical technologies. It is necessary to introduce methods and means into students’ physical education that contribute to the associated formation of a specialist’s physical and mental readiness for a future profession. The study aims to search for new approaches and justify the means of special coordination training for students at a construction university (using the example of a civil engineer). The research methods used were the analysis of scientific and methodological literature and general scientific methods (dialectics, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretization). The work analyzes in detail the features of professional activities and supplements the professional profile of a civil engineer with a list of psychomotor abilities: spatial accuracy of movements, accuracy of differentiation of muscle efforts; motor memory; speed of response; ability to maintain balance; psychomotor endurance; rhythmic ability; ability to navigate. The concept of special coordination training of students is substantiated. It is based on the principles of the ratio of the volumes of general physical training means and special exercises of an applied nature, and distribution of non-standard sports and exercises by years of study. In the process of classes, the tasks of educating psychophysical professionally important qualities and functions, the formation of applied knowledge, skills and abilities should be realized. At this stage, students are offered the choice and practice of professionally applied sports (sports games, gymnastics, martial arts, arm wrestling), and in the variable part the development of non-traditional means to increase the level of coordination and special preparedness. These include the following sports and physical exercise systems: applied gymnastics, rock climbing, tourism, orienteering, mini-trampoline jumping, dance systems and types of aerobics, yoga and psychomotor exercises. A special block of tasks and exercises is aimed at developing the psychomotor abilities of civil engineers. It includes exercises with and without objects, dance exercises in pairs, exercises with varying sound and visual signals, exercises for accuracy of hitting the target, psychomotor tasks and relay races. In specially selected sets of exercises, those forms of movements are consistently designed that make it possible to selectively and purposefully influence the development of the engineer’s psychomotor abilities, which should subsequently be used in independent physical education classes. This technology will be tested in the educational process in physical education classes for future engineers.