Fitness: which one? To whom?

Abstract

Placing in question the dimension of the evaluation of the aptitude, the author makes a retrospect of the different approaches for the concept of aptitude, to long of history and their consequences for the man and the society, until the current days, analyzes the interference of these conceptions on the life stile, its use at some historical moments for the dominant politics ideologies, indicates the importance for the quality of life, education and health linking it at the partner-economic-cultural contexts and arrives at the concept of aptitude and wellness, as interdependent factors. The objective of this study is to reflect on the evolution that the terms had to the long of the years, and try to show your real significance and direction, under the light of the current knowledge, for the man. Some facts still that socially forgotten and rejected by the detainers of the power, cannot be ignored: the competitive age, of maximum functional income, has a log limit, but the life continues with all the emotional results and partner-economic-cultural exactly when the maximum productive life ceases. In the competitions, this fact happen precociously. In the old approaches, when was important the said physical aptitude, the evaluation already was important to the training was not changedded into aggressive factor, and with the aspects today understood when to be apt is in last analysis to have high quality of life, to evaluate to improve with security, to keep or same to recover aptitude, the evaluation and the adequate menagement of the process of its backup become basic. In this context of the careful dosed movement, that must today be understood the evaluation in sciences of the movement, its educational contexts, it understood the activity physical, in its multiple aspects, the motor re-education and the health. To allow to reach such effect, must be the first objective of a good testing program and evaluation and, later, of its application in the lapsing and prompt of the motor activity human being, of an active life in its different sources: in the leisure, the occupation and in the competition, aiming at to the attainment of beings truily apt and educated.