Substantiation of Express Methods of Restoring Student Athletes’ Working Capacity within Academic and Training Day

Considering the student athletes’ enhanced level of neural, emotional and physical stress (academic and sport stress), the paper provides materials substantiating the means of normalizing the functional state of athlete students’ bodies and selecting urgent stimulation and restoration methods during an academic and training day that could be applied by students independently. The existing pool of devices and methods, as well as the means for restoring and stimulating working capacity are analyzed based on identifying the psycho-physiological status during the academic day at academic classes. Opportunities for non-medicine and nondevice express means and methods of urgent restoration of students’ working capacity are explored, borrowing from the Oriental medicine arsenal (Chinese, Indian, Korean and Japanese mudras; Sujok massage of special points on fingers, palms and auricle). They are simple, the procedure takes little time and is highly efficient. Application of Oriental techniques results in a positive trend of restoring students’ working capacity and general state. It is recommended to include only validated, most efficient, understandable and practically available means of stimulation and restoration from the number of Oriental practices into complexes for student athletes, and these means’ application should take into account the functional state. It is preferable for the procedure to be harmless, simple and quick and for its time interval and effect duration to be clear.