The article identifies scientific and pedagogical tools and content of physical education and basics of health of students in the process of combat horting, reveals guidelines for organizing the educational process of combat horting in higher education and the formation of a healthy lifestyle of student youth. Theoretical analysis of the problem of formation of a healthy way of life of students and conditions of application of improving physical exercises of combat horting is carried out. The implementation of the content of physical education and the basics of student health in the process of combat horting is provided by adequate to the physical activity of students methods of building training sessions. The presentation of the main material is based on the provisions of the National Strategy for the Development of Education in Ukraine, the Concept of National-Patriotic Education of Children and Youth, other guiding state documents on the teaching of the discipline «Physical Education». This requires new views on the planning and implementation of a modern educational process in combat horting and rehabilitation of students of higher education. Teoretychnyy analiz naukovoyi literatury ta praktychnyy dosvid z problemy vyvchennya pozytyvnoho vplyvu boyovoho khortynhu, shcho spryyaye vykhovannyu fizychnoyi kulʹtury, formuvannyu zdorovoho sposobu zhyttya student·sʹkoyi molodi ta pidvyshchennyu rivnya zdorov'ya studentiv dovodytʹ, shcho dana problema ye aktualʹnoyu, adzhe vona zabezpechuye podolannya nehatyvnykh tendentsiy sered studentiv sektsiy boyovoho khortynhu, povʺyazanykh z pidvyshchenym navchalʹnym i trenuvalʹnym navantazhennyam u zakladi vyshchoyi osvity, korehuvannyam funktsionalʹno-emotsiynoho stanu ta neobkhidnistyu vykhovannya y ozdorovlennya studentiv u protsesi zanyatʹ boyovym khortynhom. Vyznacheno osnovni zahalʹnoteoretychni zasady boyovoho khortynhu yak efektyvnoyi skladovoyi chastyny navchalʹno-vykhovnoho protsesu, spryamovanoyi na zadovolennya zapytiv, interesiv student·sʹkoyi molodi shchodo vykhovannya fizychnoyi kulʹtury i formuvannya zdorovoho sposobu zhyttya cherez vykhovnyy vplyv trenera-vykladacha zakladu vyshchoyi osvity (pedahoha). Klasyfikatsiya vplyvu komponentiv, metodyk i fizychnykh vprav boyovoho khortynhu, yaki spryyayutʹ vykhovannyu fizychnoyi kulʹtury ta formuvannyu zdorovoho sposobu zhyttya student·sʹkoyi molodi, maye taki oznaky: intensyvnistʹ (nyzʹka, serednya, velyka); vikova katehoriya (student·sʹka molodʹ 17–25 rokiv); statʹ (khloptsi ta divchata); perevazhayuchyy proyav volʹovoyi yakosti (odna abo dekilʹka volʹovykh yakostey: tsilespryamovanistʹ, initsiatyvnistʹ, samostiynistʹ, napolehlyvistʹ, dystsyplinovanistʹ, rishuchistʹ, vytrymka, orhanizovanistʹ, dilovytistʹ, smilyvistʹ, muzhnistʹ toshcho, yaki formuyutʹsya u protsesi zanyatʹ boyovym khortynhom).