Involving the population in physical activity through the system of sports for all

The problem of involving different groups of the population in health and recreational physical activity is of interest to a significant number of domestic and foreign scientists. Physical culture and sports institutions offer various formats to involve the population in physical activity: from promising and innovative technologies to the updating of existing physical culture and sports events. They have intensified their work on involving the population, in particular internally displaced persons, war veterans and their family members. The purpose - to investigate the effectiveness of physical culture and health projects/events of the All-Ukrainian Center for Physical Education and Sport "Sport for All". Methods: analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature; system analysis, documentary method, sociological methods (questionnaires), and methods of mathematical statistics. The Center “Sport for All” plays an active role in the popularization of physical activity and sports. During 2024, the Center has held more than 5,000 events and trainings, 9 physical culture and sports projects (“modernized” their content) under the leadership of more than 540 coordinators of active parks and involved 370 thousand people in physical activity. The most active in terms of the number of people involved in systematic training sessions aimed at developing basic motor qualities there was the social project “Active Parks - Locations of Healthy Ukraine”. Classes were held in more than fifty territorial communities of the region. Free classes in various types of physical activity were available for the population of the communities: Nordic walking, overcoming tourist routes, sports games, relay races, health fitness, classes on simulators, cycling, etc. There was developed a navigation map of free recreational classes for the population in parks and squares. Coordinators (n=65) from the Lviv region who conducted classes in over 50 territorial communities were interviewed.