About
The EUFITMOS project addresses the following topic: “Encourage participation in sport and physical activity especially by supporting Council Recommendation on HEPA and EU Physical Activity Guidelines”. Following the European recommendations for monitoring fitness, especially in youth, and given the resources that are already available and are underused in this population, the aim of the EUFITMOS project is to create a European network for monitoring fitness in youth in order to use fitness as an indicator of HEPA for individuals, the MS, the scientific community and the public health and education sectors.
The EUFITMOS project will bridge the gaps between knowledge, guidelines, concepts for monitoring and assessment, among countries and among different sets of indicators on fitness.
Albanian Sports Science Association (ASSA) is part as an external partner of the European Fitness Monitoring System (EUFITMOS) having permission to utilize the project resources.
EUFITMOS FITNESS TESTING PROTOCOL
The monitoring of physical fitness of adolescents is important because it reflects the impact of genetic and environmental factors on health indicators. Based on the physical fitness level of children, pedagogical, and public health strategies and policies can be developed. In this sense, it is necessary to have a battery of validated fitness tests, capable of assessing physical fitness to obtain data that allow us to determine the level of health and at the same time establish comparisons between.
We intend to apply and disseminate the test battery all over Europe. We further want to encourage researchers to assess the level of physical fitness in adolescents by using this manual because the derived findings will inform the development of pedagogical public health strategies and European physical fitness recommendations.