The object of this research is the performance of physical education of students at Kaunas University of Technology. The scientific problem is how, preparing specialists for the work activities in a technological university, to modify the performance of the physical education so that the inborn and acquired physical fitness of the students would develop possibly optimally. This encouraged to study the desires of students in the field of the physical education as well as look for a new physical culture subject model. The hypothesis of the research was based on the assumption that the programme of the subject of the physical culture in the course of the research will more influence the change of the physical fitness of students. The aim of the research is to study the influence of the change of the content of the physical culture subject at the KUT on the physical fitness of students. The following goals were raised seeking the aim of the work: 1. to analyze the evaluation of knowledge and skills of movement of the students of the KUT 2. to analyze the attitude of the students of the KUT towards the discipline of the physical culture 3. to determine the level of the physical fitness of the students of the KUT 4. to evaluate the influence of the physical education programme on the change of the physical fitness of the students of the KUT. The results of the research showed that the knowledge of the students of faculties of KUT HMF and DTF in many issues related... [to full text]