About Fitness

Exercise:

• Activity has health benefits with improvement in function and wellbeing
• Maintaining a healthy lifestyle by incorporating regular exercise improve cardiorespiratory performance with muscular strength and endurance
• Specific exercises cause specific adaptations in the cardiorespiratory and muscular systems
• Assessing fitness and strength adaptation ensures ongoing improvement or deterioration of function levels
• Routine fitness testing is conducted in sports to assess athletic performance progression or deterioration
• A baseline assessment provides a way in which an individual can maintain or improve function

Muscle strength:

• Muscle strength adaptation is measured using standardised testing parameters
• Muscle conditioning for general wellbeing or after an injury or surgical intervention can be maintained using ASSIC strength app

Exercise prescription:

• Exercise intensity (dose) can be prescribed for general well being, sport specific level of activity or for specific medical conditions

Testing Exercise prescription

• Exercise prescription for general well being: Aerobic exercise
• Sport specific exercise prescription
• Exercise prescription for specific medical conditions:
  • Weight loss
  • Hypertension
  • Diabetes