On 17 June in Sochi Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) held workshop: «Fitness as a basis for the development of healthcare culture and effective business in children's educational bodies and health resorts of Sochi». This event does not belong to general routine educational activity of RIOU and it is naturally a «gift» to the future Olympic capital. As CEO of RIOU Professor Lev Belousov noticed «it is obvious that declared theme will be in great demand in the city-resort with developed sport and healthcare infrastructure for various age-based categories of population».
Rinat Hisyamov, expert of RIOU, supervisor of «fitness-management» direction of Central Institute of Continuous Education of Society «Knowledge» of Russia, member of International Association of Sport Sciences and Marina Bashlykova coordinator of children's programs of Moscow Center of Family Leisure «Kimberly Land» addressed the Sochi audience.
Rinat Hisyamov told about modern trends of fitness development in Russia, industry development problems and also noticed that «Sochi has unique opportunities to create school of modern fitness not only to form healthcare culture and increase qualification of sport industry personnel but to study professional orientation and post-sport rehabilitation within its framework».
Marina Baslykova presented organizational forms of children's fitness and required conditions for the organization of children's club. In her presentation she characterized children's fitness as a step towards creation of physical, intellectual and spiritual health. She said that «children's fitness is becoming more and more popular. It is not enough just to simply buy sport equipment. It is necessary somehow properly organize and create interesting and encouraging programs, and certainly provide comfortable conditions for the most fragile people».
As workshop's presenters think fitness is able to become effective and obvious tool of healthcare life style promotion, development of youth training system basic elements and effective method of athletes' post-career rehabilitation.
