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In everyday life an important component of working efficiency is people’s physical capabilities and normal level of functioning of basic systems of the organism. One of the most popular means of physical culture among growing generation is health-improving fitness and its technologies. Aim of the article: research of influence of the health-improving fitness on level of physical activity and functional state of cardiovascular system of 11th form pupils. Methods of research: theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature and internet sources, pedagogical supervision, sociologic (questioning), pulsometry and Ruffier reaction, methods of mathematical statistics. Results of research. Research has shown that 70 % of pupils have mid-level degree cardiac insufficiency, 20 % got “good” marks and only 10 % of pupils have high indicators that correspond to mark “excellent”. The results of the questioning have shown that level of physical activity of 60 % youngsters is not sufficient in connection with low motivation for physical culture training. Research of pupils of the 11th form showed that among means of health-improving factors, the most popular among girls are classical and fitball-aerobics, yoga and pilates; amongs boys – athletics, gymnastycs, health-improving jogging, crossfit, riding a bicycle and health-improving swimming. Use of the means of health-improving fitness (basic aerobics) at physical training classes considerably influenced the increase of physical activity level, optimization of cardiovascular system of youngsters and increase of motivation to physical training classes. Conclusions. The research proves that at physical training classes the main issue that provokes 11th form pupils to take care about their own health is a possibility to choose among those means of physical education that entail fresh interest to classes. The use of health-improving element helped in optimization of work of cardiovascular system, increased level of physical activity and adolescent’s interest that proves its important place among other types of health-improving technologies. Perspectives of further researches lie within advanced learning of foreign experience of using health-improving fitness technologies.