Centro de acondicionamiento físico: FEF

Abstract

The practice of physical activity and exercise are closely related to the maintenance of health, reducing risk factors in a large number of diseases. This means that alternatives for the dissemination of healthy lifestyles must be sought in which the human movement is included as a protective factor against the disease1. In this way, many alternatives have been created to combat the risk factors to which all human beings are exposed. One of these options to counteract the bad lifestyle habits that have been generated in society today is physical exercise and physical activity for health in the currently called Conditioning and Physical Preparation Centers (C.A.P.F). Law 729 of 2001 "through which the Physical Conditioning Centers in Colombia are created". Seen in this way, one might think that C.A.P.F. indeed, they promote the health of users, complying with disease prevention at its three levels: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, that is, it works on disease risk factors before it appears and also when it has already demonstrated to avoid its consequences or, in the latter case, to rehabilitate lost conditions. Similarly, C.A.P.F. they would be able to attend to all population segments from the child population to the elderly, achieving a true Biopsychosocial approach, a concept from which health is currently seen as a “dynamic process in which there is not necessarily complete physical well-being and includes the mental and social aspects, maintaining an unstable balance between the individual, the community and the environment ”. (Escobar, 2008). Health promotion is the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle and move towards optimal health. Optimal health is defined as a healthy balance on a physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual level. Lifestyle change can be facilitated through a combination of efforts to raise awareness, change behaviors, and create environments that support good healthy habits. Of the latter, the most important in maintaining long-term changes will be having a supported environment. (Lindsay, G.M. 2000).