Body management

The word body management is made up of the well-known terms body and management. The resulting new term means to transfer the systematics of the management process in companies with analysis, planning, implementation of the planning into concrete measures and success control, to the body, if people want to carry out health measures process-oriented with success.

In this description, body management can be seen as an essential part of health management, in which the aim is to promote the health literacy of people in the private sphere or in the context of social settings (kindergartens, schools, companies, etc.).

High-performance sport is a very special and extreme form of body management. The special situation arises from the fact that athletes have to put a lot of effort into increasing their performance in order to obtain the best possible performance in their competitions and thus to do better than their competitors. Without a systematic approach to managing your body, this goal cannot be achieved. A parallel to the companies, because their success also depends to a large extent on the quality of their management processes.

Basics

At the beginning of the body management process there is the determination of the current state via a health and family anamnesis as well as diagnostic procedures to determine the current physical performance, the nutritional behavior and the stress level. Subsequently, verifiable goals are to be formulated (target state). These serve as a prerequisite for planning suitable measures to achieve the goals. For this purpose, motivating methods, exercises, etc. tailored to the individual must be used in order to increase the probability of success. Success controls are used within the process at defined times. Their purpose is to check whether the process is on a successful path. In this case, the body management process is continued until the desired goal is achieved. Then further goals can be formulated. If the checkups carried out in the meantime do not lead to a positive result, corrections must be made to the initiated measures.

aims

The goal of body management is to structure development stages, advances in performance or health of people and processes them health literacy to convey to their lives. This ensures that the process can be controlled at any time on the basis of well-founded information, thereby increasing the probability of success.

History of the term

When following up the term in the literature, the systematic described cannot initially be recognized. Body management first came to Baur in 1989. to find. He notes that body management begins very early in human development. It is stimulated by the parent-child interaction and is gender-specific. In the course of development, body management varies between the sexes. Men pay less attention to their body and its signals and care less about their health than women. On the other hand, they more easily expose themselves to higher health risks and are often defined by excessive consumption patterns of alcohol and other drugs . For women, health is more associated with well-being and a reflective relationship with the body.

In the context of development, body management is respected as an important process for the self-socialization of children. In this context, the term also appeared in a medical textbook in 1993. There it is stated that the development of adolescents includes the important task of accepting one's own physical appearance and using one's body effectively (body management). In general, human existence is closely related to its body, which appears through action in a certain body management. Young people who are looking for their future (adult) selves in the face of the uncertainties caused by their puberty development represent a particularly sensitive and experimental clientele for questions (and problems) of body management.

Depending on the development and social character, the motivation to influence the body according to social role models through targeted measures develops. A large number of young people - and later adults as well - see active sports as essential reasons for more well-being, health, fitness and attractiveness. This can be understood as an indication of conscious body management in sport. Therefore, nowadays the topic is brought into focus early in some schools as part of the development of health awareness. Even in pre-school education, it is now one of the learning fields of daycare centers.

In connection with systematic exercise, health and sport, the term body management appears in a book title in 1992 and 1994.

The term can also be found more and more frequently in the context of company health management and company health promotion for the long-term maintenance and increase of performance through personal stress and body management, as well as nutritional behavior. Private institutions also deal professionally with this topic and use the term in the context of their offers. Magazines devoted to the management of companies with specialist articles also take up the topic.

Although it was recognized early on that body management is an important factor in personnel development and leadership training, this approach is only gradually being adopted by training and further education institutes. Lectures or seminars on this topic can be booked in magazines for personnel development and professional qualifications.

Body management is now used as a term in a variety of ways and is used in almost all areas of the health market. Body management is most often found in connection with personal training or in the vicinity of clubs, fitness studios or health centers. The German Walking Institute also offers lectures on this.

But physiotherapy also uses the term when treating its patients. Some doctors use it, for example, as part of a medically accompanied, individual concept for healthy weight and body management or for lectures, workshops and seminars on the subject of health.

In the field of nutrition, the term body management in connection with the disciplines of nutritional behavior , nutritional therapy, health promotion, etc. is gaining importance. This results in individual concepts for healthy weight and body management on the basis of personal health resources, life situations and fitness habits in order to achieve the personal goals of customers / patients.

Conclusion: body management processes are structured uniformly. Each individual can use it to organize his or her personal fitness, weight or stress management . Trainers, doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists or other professional groups working in the health care sector can use this as a guide when working with their customers or patients. In different settings in our society such as daycare centers, schools or companies, health-oriented measures can be process-controlled according to this scheme.

Limits

"Modern man is not, he MAKES something of himself, also physically!".

At this point there is a risk that people will try to “get the best out of themselves” and thereby turn the originally positive effect of body management into a negative one. The desire for more beautiful and better can easily degenerate into a beauty or fitness mania under the influence of social norms and compulsions and reach the limit of the unhealthy.

In the development phase of young people in particular, there is a risk that excessive body management through uncritical reflection when dealing with role models in the media can lead to incorrect health behavior (e.g. eating disorders) because the ability to criticize and self-esteem are still insufficiently developed.

Doping, both in competitive and recreational sports, corresponds to excessive body management with unforeseeable health consequences.

Individual evidence

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