Health sport

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Health sport is an umbrella term for rehabilitation sport and cardiac sport , but also preventive sport programs such as spinal gymnastics . The German Olympic Sports Confederation issues a certificate for health sports .

aims

Health sport tries to achieve several goals:

  • Strengthening physical health resources
  • Strengthening psychosocial health resources
  • Reduction of risk factors in the area of ​​blood sugar level, obesity or the like
  • Better coping with personal complaints
  • Binding to health sport in order to enable lifelong exercise
  • Improvement of living conditions to enable a more eventful life

Individual evidence

  1. The German Olympic Sports Confederation: Core Goals for Health Sports