The article presents the results of a study of the effectiveness of physical training of boys and girls aged 17-18 using various means. The participants of the experiment were applicants of the Russian University of Sports for the period 2018-2022. The purpose of the study is to justify the choice of means of physical preparation for passing the standards for admission to the university of boys and girls 17-18 years old. The methodology and organization of the study - the following methods were used in the work: analysis of information sources, questionnaires, pedagogical testing, pedagogical experiment, mathematical and statistical data processing. The study involved 40 people, they were divided into two experimental and two control groups. Research results of the study and discussion. Pedagogical testing was conducted regularly, every four weeks of the experiment and included five control exercises - running 100 m, long jump from a place, pull-ups on the crossbar (boys), flexion and extension of the arms in a prone position (girls), leaning forward from a standing position and running 500 m (girls) and 1000 m (young men). In the future, these funds were required to be carried out by the participants of the experiment when passing the standards. For seven months, each of the groups underwent physical training using various means. Experimental groups used a wide arsenal of tools with a complex effect on all physical qualities. The control groups performed only basic exercises in which they tried to improve their performance at each lesson. After the completion of this process, a final test was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the training tools used. Conclusions -the use of exercises in the process of physical training that implement a complex effect on physical qualities leads to significantly more significant increases in the indicators of the level of preparedness of boys and girls aged 17-18 years than the use of narrow-focus means