Professional motiving sports work at higher education institution

The general basis that unites all types of students' active attitude to physical education and sports is that the formative and guiding principle of this type of activity is its motivation. Unfortunately, issues related to the motivation of mass sports work remain insufficiently developed from a scientific point of view. This is primarily due to the fact that in modern psychology and pedagogy, pedagogy of higher education there is no understanding of the essence of this phenomenon. Meanwhile, the motivation of sports-mass work is not only the core characteristic of the personality of a student-athlete. It affects the nature of all the processes of educational activity (reaction to physical and mental stress, recovery, assimilation of the new, education of the will, etc.).