Vaclav Bun
Charles University, Czech Republic
Title: Movement activities like a tool of obesity and weight management
Biography
Biography: Vaclav Bun
Abstract
The current epidemic of obesity is a problem not only to public health, but each individual. It is up to about 5% of cases the problem of education and not medicine. For an effective intervention it is necessary in the first place timely to identify its initial stages and simultaneously identify the variables that can aff ect by the external interventions. Th e basic tool for successful intervention is to change the lifestyle of intervened individuals – from sedentary to active. The first step is early diagnostics and then selecting individual approach that respects the health, previous experience physical, physical fitness, time and economic conditions and the relationship with its surroundings to influence obesity of the subject. The movement intervention with the weekly energy content ranged from 1500 kcal to 2700 kcal (depending on subject’s body mass) in the time duration of 5 months is able to cause a decline in the mean %BF of about 24.0%, and increase in the mean VO2peak about 14.0% (both independently on body mass, age and gender). We can conclude that an exercise program with a similar energy content, form and intensity causes the similar changes in BC and in motor and functional performance in subjects, diff ering in body mass, age and gender.