To establish fitness monitoring system, it is vital to engage in the public health mechanisms of government to make child physical fitness a national health priority.

Check out the SLOfit team’s approach to engaging the public and government sectors in prioritising children and youth physical activity levels, especially during the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic.

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“Measuring the direct long-term response of an individual child to physical activity – their physical fitness – is a more reliable indicator of habitual physical activity, as well as providing a more stable factor in assessment of health risks.”

- Prof. Dr. Luis B. Sardinha, Co-founder of the FITescola®, Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon, Portugal

“Is the brain of fitter individuals different from that of less fit individuals? Yes, several investigations support that there are indeed important structural differences in the brain in people with different physical fitness levels.”

- Prof. Dr. Francisco B. Ortega, Co-director of the PROFITH research Group, School of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain

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“Wir brauchen objektive Daten zur körperlichen Fitness um die Bewegungskompetenz in der Gesellschaft adäquat fördern zu können. Eine solide körperlichen Fitness bildet die Grundlage, dass Kinder und Jugendliche sich dazu entscheiden, sinnvolle, körperlichen Aktivitäten über die Lebensspanne zu betreieben und von den gesundheitlichen Vorteilen, die mit einem aktiven Lebensstil einhergehen, profitieren.”

- Prof. Dr. Gregor Jurak, Leiter der FitBack- und SLOfit®-Forschungsgruppe, Universität Ljubljana, Slovenien

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