| Abstract [eng] |
Relevancy: a good level of physical state of the police officers is guarantee of their professional success and a condition that influences their work quality implementing the main objectives and direct functions. Police office specific features causes the fact that the officers face negative realty more frequently, compared to other employees, so skills, developed during permanent trainings, also physical and will features are very significant in all extreme situations. Optimal physical state of police officers is gained via mandatory formal physical and special readiness trainings, organized by police headquarters, and informal voluntary physical development exercises. Objectives: to analyze approach of Vilnius County Senior Headquarters police officers on physical self-development, to investigate expression of its volume, intensity and physical development, to identify the level of general physical qualification and its link with physical self-development; to prepare a one-year physical self-development model according to the results of the research. Conclusion: the research has revealed that the police officers consider physical self-development exercises to be a physical impact measure to improve physical and psychical health and a general physical qualification. As the respondents put it, regular physical self-development makes work easy, also helps to gain better results, i.e. has a positive impact on a quality of work activity. The main reasons, influenced psychical self-development for the officers, are motives of improving psychical features, correction of psychical development and a full body improvement, when the main reason for not to exercise voluntarily is (could be) expensive sport services. So, the most popular forms of psychical self-development of the respondents were bodybuilding, jogging and body shaping, that do not require large expenses, its time isn’t restricted and could be regulated according to a day agenda. The research has revealed that an average weekly amount of psychical self-development exercises (2,94) and time (3 h 36 min) meets a minimal physical activity norm, recommended by the Global Health Organization for adults. Results of mandatory physical qualification tests for police officers for average sample in 2013 are by 2,14 % higher than in 2011. The respondents showed the best results in agility and promptness, when the lowest – in physical strength, which tests results for average sample have become lower by even 20,15 % since 2011. It is a strange fact, as the first and the third top forms of psychical self-development are bodybuilding and body shaping and the muscle strength and strength development are one of the main aims of the latter sports. Otherwise, popularity of jogging, as one of psychical self-development form, has a positive influence on stamina test results, which average sample increased by 13,97 % in two years. |
