AboutThe 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.

Network for monitoring fitness in youth

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.

EUFITMOS ProjectImplementation of the EUFITMOS project in the city of Tirana. Special thanks to the directors and staff of the Kristaq Rama school for the readiness shown in the realization of measurements in the students. Gratitude to our partners Balkan Sport Albania, for supporting the implementation of the EUFITMOS project in Albania. The aim of the EUFITMOS project is to create a European network for monitoring fitness in young people in order to use fitness as a HEPA indicator for individuals, the scientific community and the health and education sectors. EUFITMOS- Funding: ERASMUS+

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ASSA youth team took part at “EUFITMOS Training School” during Physical Activity and Sports Tech for Healthy Lifestyles scientific conference held in Podgorica, Montenegro, 8th – 11th December 2022.
“Modern systems for monitoring fitness in children and youth of school age”

The general goal of the program was to familiarize physical education teachers and classroom teachers with modern fitness monitoring systems for children and youth of school age. Also specific goals of the program relate to physical education teachers and classroom teachers becoming familiar with the trends of fitness development in school-age children and youth over time, with all available field tests for monitoring fitness in school-age children and youth, as well as to be able to apply the “EUFITMOS fitness testing protocol”, a modern system for monitoring fitness in children and youth of school age, and to apply the acquired knowledge and skills in future theoretical and
practical work.
ASSA thanks the organizers for this training.

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