Young people entering medical university show a low level of physical fitness. In modern conditions, the physical fitness of young people has also been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic with a huge number of restrictions. Sports clubs have suffered, the effectiveness of which has significantly decreased due to insufficient physical fitness of young people entering the university. This naturally affects the possibility of participating in competitions of various levels, not to mention getting into the prize-winners. The coaches of the skiing and cheerleading sports sections decided to find an effective way to increase the physical fitness of their team members by means of functional training and increase the share of total physical fitness from 10-20% to 50-60% of the total volume of the training process. The conducted research revealed that the applied sets of exercises aimed at the development and improvement of the physical qualities of female students have a positive effect.