Overview

According to definiton of World Health Organization (WHO) healthis a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.So psysical health is one of more defining components of human health.Healthy body (physical health) would be the one that is not under the influence of pathological effects, that is disease. For timely detection, and therefore treatment of detected diseases, it is necessary to perform periodic annual systematic medical examination. Systematic medical examinations should timely detect any potential disease and its stage, that is show if you are physically healthy or not. If some disease or indication of future condition is detected during systematic examination, additional specialist examinations are conducted. However, if systematic examination shows you are not sick, that is you are healthy, the question remains: how healthy you are?, that is what is the level of my physical health? Physical health level depends on physical readiness to oppose physical load, that is individuals fitness. Fitnessrepresents individuals level of readiness, and it can be directed towards health – health fitness or towards sports performance - sports fitness. FitnessIndex™ application using the standardized testing protocol, developed by team of experts from Fitness Academy, is assessing the true level of health fitness based on scientific proof. Using FitnessIndex™ application we get the results through which is possible to express the real health fitness level and determine exercise priorities. Standardized testing protocol is based on assessment of basic fitness components which have direct effect on health and quality of life. Those components are: body composition, locomotor system functionality, muscular and cardio fitness. After standardized testing protocol is conducted, results for every component are attained which are then compared with normative dana and are evaluated with ratings between 1 and 5.