Scientific and Methodological Foundation of Improvement of the Students` Coordination Abilities at the Table Tennis Training Lessons

The problems of physical education and health are very important due to the world situation. The article contains information about interests of students of higher educational institutions: we have noted the rising interest to the table tennis, as a spectacular kind of sport. Table tennis is one of the most popular kinds of sport among students. It helps to develop following skills: accuracy, speed and reaction speed, explosive power, sense of rhythm operational thinking, the ability to concentrate attention and coordination. Table tennis has been recommended as the most perspective kind of sport, which is available for health. The article provides an example of structure and content of physical education training lessons with students of higher educational institutions with the use of table tennis. Students of the experimental group worked at the increasing their coordination abilities at the table tennis lessons. The training was divided into three parts: preparation, the main part and the conclusion. Each part had the own differences. The preparation part took up 12-15% of the total time and was aimed to involve and warm up the big muscles. The main part of the lesson took up 75-80% of the total time. This part was divided into three: exercises without the ball, exercises with the ball and the racket, training games. The final part of the lesson was about 10% of the total time. Exercises were aimed at relaxing: breathing, flexibility exercises, jogging, walking. In order to improve the coordination skills it necessary to remember for methodological principles: coordination exercises should be at the beginning of the lesson, exercises should be difficult, limited of the number and duration, exercises should be at the defined time, using of the general physical exercises.