Adaptivity of physicalfitness norms for foreign service person sin Russian military institutions of higher education

The article addresses the problems of physical fitness assessmentand physical fitnessnormsin respect to foreign servicepersons who study in Russian military educational institutions. The general level of physical fitness inforeign enrollees is rather low, arguably due to the internal policies of other countries regarding physical culture and youth education and the personal attitude of servicepersons. As a result, suchprimary tasks of the educational process as physical training and improvement of moving motor abilities that would be typical for the university level, have to be replaced with general physicaldevelopment and learning of the secondary school level. Consequently, the inability to meetthe physical training standards becomes a challenge for many foreign military studentsduring thefoundation course and the first years of training. It takes more time for them to train themselves to meet the university level requirements to physical fitness and master the discipline of physical training...