The purpose of this study was to study the attitudes of representatives of different levels of student sport and specialists who provide the training process in the university to sports activities and the RWD complex. A separate task of the study was to study the reasons for participation and nonparticipation in the RWD complex. To implement the goal, a questionnaire was developed. The study involved students, teachers and graduates of St. Petersburg State University. As a result of the research, data were obtained that, with a realized understanding that sports and physical culture are a powerful source in the formation of personality and life experience, the RWD is not an attractive program included in the package of healthy lifestyle activities. It is established that even under ideal conditions for the delivery of RWD standards, the activity of the population will be low, since motivation is the decisive factor. But at the same time, the majority of respondents are waiting for active actions to involve the population in passing the standards of the RWD complex on the part of the state and the leadership.