Socio-Pedagogical Profile and Motivation of Men Aged 26 -31 Years to Engage in Health

The relevance of the research topic. It is very important that health has been considered the most important category of existence since the earliest periods of humanity. Culture is a measure of human development, human existence, and health culture is a measure of the attitude of a person and society to health, which, as noted by researchers, is conditioned by cultural discourses (concepts, knowledge) and acts as a phenomenon of social life, that is, the phenomenon of health reflects the historical trajectory of a person's vision of himself through the prism of certain health ideals that have developed over centuries and millennia in different societies and cultural areas. The purpose of the article is to determine the socio-pedagogical profile and motivation of men of the first period of mature age to engage in health fitness. Methods: analysis and generalization of specialized scientific literature, sociological methods. From the range of methods of statistical data processing, primary statistical processing of materials was used in the study. Results. The majority of the study participants were married or divorced, with unmarried men making up a much smaller proportion. Due to these circumstances, the most popular time for fitness classes for the study participants was weekends (for 90.9 %; n=30) and evening hours (for 97 %; n=32), while morning classes were less popular, with only 24.3 % (n=8) choosing it. If we compare the 26-28-year-olds and 29-31-year-olds, we can see that their social and pedagogical profiles do not differ significantly. According to the survey, both groups preferred weekends and evenings for fitness activities. Weekends were chosen by 87.5 % of men aged 26-28 (n=14), evening time by 100 % of them (n=16), and morning time by only 25 % (n=4). Similarly, older participants (29-31 years old) were more likely to train on weekends (94.12 %; n=16) and/or in the evening (94.12 %; n=16), while only 23.53 % of this group (n=4) found morning time attractive. Thus, both groups preferred weekends and evenings for fitness, and there was no significant difference between them (χ2=0.08; df=2; n=33; p>0.05). Conclusions. It was found that 48.5 % of the respondents had an average level of assessment of their fitness training capabilities, and more than half of the men (51.5 %) demonstrated a low level of fitness self-esteem. These men had some concerns about their training and fitness.