高校学生在社会中是很重要的群体,他们参加体育活动的态度和行为,将会影响到社会许多方面,不可忽视。文章通过问卷调查法对普通高校学生的自主锻炼情况进行调查,发现学生自主参与体育锻炼的能力较差。为了使他们形成良好的自主锻炼习惯,提高其自主锻炼能力,于是在太原师范学院随机抽取2个教学班进行对比教学实践。实验班通过优化师生关系、活泼有趣的教学方法、改善教学环境等,有针对性地对学生自主锻炼能力进行培养。通过实验对比研究,结果表明,优化课堂教学效果,实施“自主锻炼”教学法是培养高校学生自主锻炼能力的手段之一,它不仅能够提高学生自主锻炼的积极性,而且还能促进学生在余暇时间进行自主锻炼。 University students in society is a very important group, their attitude and behavior to participate in sports activities, will affect many aspects of society, can not be ignored. The article investigates the autonomous exercise of ordinary university students by questionnaire method and finds that students have less ability to participate in physical exercise autonomously. In order to make them form a good habit of independent exercise, improve their ability to exercise independently, so in Taiyuan Normal College randomly selected two teaching classes for comparative teaching practice. Experimental class by optimizing the relationship between teachers and students, lively and interesting teaching methods to improve the teaching environment, targeted students to develop their own ability to exercise. The results of experiments show that optimizing classroom teaching and implementing “self-exercising” teaching method is one of the ways to cultivate college students’ independent exercise ability. It can not only improve students’ enthusiasm for independent exercise, but also promote students’ Leisure time for self-training.