Promoting fitness for the family

Abstract

My experience comes from three interlinked fields. That of a physiotherapist and . manager of the World Class fitness centre, as well as an active sportsman. Many people, even in today's age of constant bombardment, from the mass media on the various forms of exercise, still have the absurd notion that exercise is only done temporarily following a particular musculo-skeletal injury, to reduce weight, and sometimes to overcome boredom. The No 1 factor which has always attracted people towards exercise is education. The process of education, i.e. promoting health and fitness, usually travels a determined course. Unfortunately this course is very often side-tracked along the way. This often happens as the 'norm setters' vary with the age of the individual, from the coach or teacher in children and adolescence to the physician in many older adults.