Physical culture as a means of preparing young people for the army: problems, motives, experience

The article presents the problems and causes of poor physical fitness of the younger generation for military service and the experience of organizing extracurricular physical education classes in the Novonikolaevsky district. The main reasons that make the younger generation unable to serve in the army are infantilization, digitalization, immersion in the virtual world. Interest in physical training can be organized by teachers both during extracurricular hours and in sectional classes, involving military sports games, competitions, hiking in classes. Physical training classes for military service were conducted in five stages with students of grades 10-11. The opinions of students before the start of physical training classes and after the students have completed a course of physical training were investigated.