SPORTS-RECREATION ACTIVITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: HISTORY AND MODERNITY
The article examines sports and recreation activities in Russian universities in a historical retrospective. The deteriorating health of the younger generation, poor physical fitness of students require new approaches to the professional training of future teachers at the university, which is associated with the need to improve the literacy of teachers in the field of physical culture and sports. The article pays special attention to historical innovations in the field of understanding physical culture and sports activity, in which the creative interaction of a teacher and a student, the formation of a personality with values, needs, interests, motives is associated with regular physical exercises, which are considered a common and important feature of physical education.