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Abstract: The article defines the degree of motivation to going in for sports, passing the GTO requirements and be physically fit to in accordance with these requirements. Problems with health and physical fitness of the students would disappear if they were involved in the process of preparation for passing the GTO requirements. The traditions of the Soviet health preserving and mass sports movement were lost and forgotten in the 1990s. As a result of ecological deterioration and, first and foremost, of violation of the rules of healthy lifestyle, we observe considerable growth of the number of health disorders and decline of potential of the work and education process. The level of personal physical culture directly indicates the quality of educational sphere. Two thirds of the Russian children of the age of 14 already suffer from chronic diseases and half of the schoolchildren have impairments of the musculoskeletal system. 40% of draftees cannot do the minimum physical test for soldiers. These and other disturbing figures were given by President Putin in his speech. Regular research shows that every new generation looks weaker than the previous one by many parameters of physical activity. It is necessary that healthy lifestyle become a norm for the majority of our students. The health of the nation is dramatically degrading. In recent years active mode of life has become popular in our country under the influence from abroad, but even this positive tendency cannot make the modern society go in for sports and give up smoking and alcohol abuse. It is on this background that GTO is believed to be capable of serving a stimulus to bring every Russian citizen back to healthy lifestyle and of making children go in for running, jumping, skiing and grenade throwing instead of computer gaming. The ARSC “Ready to Work and Defense” (GTO) was brought back to life for health improvement and creation of favorable conditions for preparation of the nation to work and defense. Restoration of the GTO complex is based on the idea of promoting healthy lifestyle values and attraction of the young people to health improvement and going in for sports. This is why it is necessary to involve and motivate students in order to get a healthy generation in the future.