The GTO (ready for labor and defense) as the foundation of physical education of secondary school students

The article briefly reveals the importance and need of a large-scale GTO project in physical education in the Russian Federation. The purpose of the article is to show the benefits of this physical culture training program for young people, especially schoolchildren. The authors present the program aimed at physical, spiritual, moral and patriotic education of schoolchildren at secondary school No 100 in the city of Volgograd. It was developed on the basis of Ready for Labour and Defence (GTO) physical education training program.