Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs
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Effects of Ageing in Physical Fitness

¹Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

²Department for Didactics and Musical, Plastic and Physical Expression. University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

³Department for Didactics and Musical, Plastic and Physical Expression. University of Granada, Granada, Spain

*Corresponding Author:

Ruiz-Montero PJ
Department of Physical Education and Sport
Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada
Carretera de Alfacar s/n
18071, Granada, Spain
Tel: 0034958244375
E-mail: pedrorumo@ugr.es

Received date: July 1, 2016; Accepted date: July 25, 2016; Published date: August 1, 2016

Citation: Ruiz-Montero PJ, Chiva-Bartoll O, Martín-Moya R (2016) Effects of Ageing in Physical Fitness. Occup Med Health Aff 4:241. doi: 10.4172/2329-6879.1000241

Copyright: © 2016 Ruiz-Montero PJ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Ageing is a natural and inevitable process with degenerative changes in most of the physical, physiological and psychological functions. Furthermore, the ageing process has an impact on the physical of elderly people. Thus, the aim of this study is to provide to readers of information about effects of ageing and changes in physical fitness as one of the major causes of chronic diseases of ageing people. In addition, the association between physical fitness and physical activity in elderly shows health benefits in this population. In conclusion, the evolution of aging is essentially understood as a gradual accumulation of damage which produces the functional declination of any organism.

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