Fitness as a challenge of modern age

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S.V. Shvets, candidate

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Fitness as a challenge of modern age
 
S.V. Shvets, candidate. Russian state university of physical culture, sport, youth and tourism (SCOLIPC), Moscow
 
Key words: fitness, health, healthy way of life, mass sport, physical culture.
 
Fitness is the most popular form of people's recreation in the world that can be undoubtedly called global. Despite the wide spread occurence in the world in Russia there exists a terminological confusion and various interpretation of the concept "fitness" and it, in its turn, affects all aspects of its social integration as a social phenomenon of the modern age. The determination of the concept of "fitness" will promote its use in scientific, professional and publicistic editions.
 
The purpose of the present paper was to reveal the key characteristics and mans for allocation of the concept of "fitness" and its possible further use in both scientific and professional editions and in press. Having revealed the contents of the concept of "fitness", one can be sure of the monosemy of its application in view of the opportunity and perspective of its use in the future as a basic term of scientific-methods and pedagogical publications as well as while working legal documents associated with development of fitness.
 
The correct treatment of the concept of "fitness" required not only by the experts in the fitness industry but also a wide range of experts engaged in the field of physical culture such as teachers, trainers, students and postgraduates of sports universities and researchers, will liquidate one of the most acute deterrents of development of fitness consisting in the multivariance of its meaning. And it, in its turn, will facilitate development of science in this field, including substantiation of the theory and methods of fitness.
 
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