Role of physical culture in the upbringing, education and improvement of students' health

The problem of health-saving technologies in education and healthy lifestyle promotion among youth has recently become one of the major ones for the Russian society. The most topical issue is that of forming physical culture within the framework of the educational process as its indispensable part, without which there can be no complete, harmonious personality development. The article is devoted to the role of physical culture in students'' education as an element of education and upbringing process. The author relies on his own pedagogic experience. Many years of practical experience of working in a higher educational institution clearly prove that the modernization of methods, technologies and criteria for assessing the quality of preparation of a future specialist in a technical university is impossible without integration with the system of physical education and preparation of students.