JUST SPORT: Fight against doping in fitness centers

Monday 11 September 2017

How to contrast the use of prohibited substances in sports and in fitness centre?

JUST SPORT aims at creating an awareness campaign against the use of doping and prohibited substances used to enhance performance in fitness centres. In each country partner of the project – Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Sweden, Portugal and Italy -, workshops will be organized in order to bring attention among fitness centre owners and trainers.

The second meeting of the project has been held in Portugal, in the municipality of Mirandela, the 6^th and the 7^th of September 2017. The staff of the partners of the JUST SPORT project were present.

During the meeting, the results of the questionnaires administrated to the fitness centres trainers were analysed in order to understand if the issue of the doping it’s perceived also by the one who belong to the universe of fitness and wellbeing. The questionnaire were also useful to realize if initiatives such as JUST SPORT could be important.

An important aspect treated during the two days of meeting, was the one related to the content and to the logistical organization of the workshops. In fact, it was agreed by the partnership to include in the future activities experts offering to the participants knowledge and foster a clean way to practice sport and improve personal performances without damage health.

In the next months, fitness centres and gyms will be contacted at local level for each country and they will be involved in the future activities of the project. At the end of the workshops each structure will receive a certificate of clean club in order to show not only competences regarding doping and prohibited substances but also to promote their cleanness!

JUST SPORT WORKSHOP

Scienze Motorie e Sportive, Università di Palermo

25th May 2018 | h. 9.00 am

Via Giovanni Pascoli, 6 – Palermo

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Several experts will be involved during the workshop, talking about different topic such as:

numbers and statistics behindthe use of doping in Italy and in Europe,

the consequences of the use of banned substances in sport,

the reasons why athletes decide to take prohibited substances,

legal aspectsaround the use of doping.

Awareness on this matter is crucial because only with the direct involvement of the stakeholders at local and European level can bring solid and deep results.

For this instance, the workshops is open to the ones who attend grassroots courses in fitness centres as well as students that are in becoming the future trainers.

The morning session will be followed by a roundtables in the afternoon in which participants and experts together will talk and share opinion on the doping topic, health, nutrition and sport as well as the project and their feedbacks about the workshops.

At the end of the working days, every participant will receive a certificate of attendance.

Participation to the workshops is open and free! Students from the faculty of “Scienze delle Attività Motorie e Sportive” will receive CFU!

In order to participate please contact as soon as possible emiliano.mungiovino@cesie.org.

About the project

JUST SPORT – Fight against doping on grassroots level is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Collaborative Partnership in field of Sport aiming at raising awareness about the negative consequences of using supplements with harmful additives among young sportsmen in fitness centers and all beginners in grassroots level recreational sports.

Moreover, the project provides anti-doping education and prevention programmes fostering the fundamental values that underpin recreational activities and informing youth about moral, legal and health benefits of recreational activities.