Col Lubomír Přívětivý (Charles University, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Prague, Czech Republic) THE POSSIBILITIES OF PHYSICAL FITNESS ASSESSMENT LIKE A WORK PERFORMANCE PREDISPOSITION IN ARMY

THE POSSIBILITIES OF PHYSICAL FITNESS ASSESSMENT LIKE A WORK PERFORMANCE PREDISPOSITION IN ARMY.
V.BUNC 1, L.PRIVETIVY 2
Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

The goal of sport scientists is to change the life style of subjects such as the predisposition of better work performance and quality of life. During last two decades it was many times declared that the subjects with higher physical fitness are able to work longer time and that the probability of significant mistakes is lower then in subjects with the lower level. Physical fitness is not only a performance oriented criterion but it is more interpreted as the predisposition of the subjects’ health state.  This physical ability is strongly pre-determined by a level of actual functional fitness thus the preserving of functional fitness becomes an issue of high interest.
Functional fitness is defined as having physical capacity to perform normal everyday activities of daily living safely and independently without undue fatigue and without the decline of physical and/or work performance.
The primary goal is to be able to accurately monitor the functional fitness of a wide range of abilities in the army so that evolving weakness might be identified and treated before resulting in impairment leading to limitations in functional behavior.
For this purpose testing basic physical performance, specialized performance and testing natural motor skills are used.

Key words:
physical fitness, health-related fitness, performance-related fitness, work performance, testing