1. Physical health function: Physical exercise plays a role in a person's function. The physical health function of sports is mainly embodied in the following aspects: sports can promote individual health by promoting the healthy development of the eight systems of human body, namely, sports system, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system and digestive system.

2. Healthy psychological function: Exercise can cultivate a person's cognitive ability. By cultivating people's cognitive ability, physical education can improve people's character and temperament, strengthen people's will and play a healthy psychological role. People's coordination, image memory and sense of space all belong to the jurisdiction of the right brain.

3. Exercise can improve people's will quality. Adhere to physical exercise, we must constantly overcome various subjective and objective difficulties. This process is a process of exercising and cultivating goodwill.

The object of systematic physical education teaching is students, and the effect of physical education teaching should be reflected in students. Students have strong plasticity, and every idea and step of physical education teaching will directly affect students' growth.

Second, the purpose

Develop sports, strengthen people's physique, promote people's all-round development, enrich social and cultural life and serve socialism. Promote the development of physical fitness and sports ability. Teach basic sports knowledge and sports skills, and cultivate lifelong sports consciousness.

Third, the task

The mission of higher education institutions is to train high-quality successors. Then the purpose of college physical education is to vigorously carry out school physical education and strive to promote the all-round development of students' body and mind. Strengthen students' physique, establish lifelong sports ideas and train talents for socialist construction.

Extended data

The importance of physical education teaching;

Education is the initial stage of training all kinds of talents, an important period of growing up, learning to be a man, increasing knowledge, developing thinking, developing intelligence and cultivating various abilities, and also the most plastic period of life.

As an important part of school education, physical education shoulders the historical responsibility of improving students' physical fitness, improving teenagers' physical and mental health, and cultivating all-round qualified talents in the 2 1 century, which is related to the improvement of the health quality of the whole people and the comprehensive national strength.

Physical education is an important stage to promote children's healthy growth and develop good fitness habits. As early as in the article "Sports Research", Mao Zedong wrote: "In the primary school stage, the development of the body should be the most important, and the improvement of knowledge and the cultivation of moral character should be the second; It is advisable to give priority to maintenance and supplement teaching and training.

The State Education Commission, the State Sports Commission, the Ministry of Health, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the State Science and Technology Commission jointly conducted a nationwide survey on the physical health status of primary and secondary school students, and found that students' endurance, flexibility and vital capacity showed a downward trend compared with 10 years ago. According to expert analysis, the direct cause of this phenomenon is that students' physical exercise is not enough, including the time and intensity of exercise can not meet the requirements of body forging. The situation is worrying.

The decline of students' physical fitness has attracted great attention from the national authorities. Sports is the foundation of the whole sports and the starting point for children to accept sports feelings and sports information. Good physical education, on the one hand, can cultivate students' interest in sports, develop good fitness habits and lay a good foundation for lifelong sports; On the other hand, it is of great significance to cultivate reserve talents of competitive sports in China.

Reference source

Baidu encyclopedia-sports