1. 13 th World Sport for All Congress Jyväskylä Finland Health Sport Environment Paola Virginia Gigliotti Francesco Coscia International Federation Sport Climbing Sport Sciences Sport Medicine University Perugia

2. 20 years of study about the influence of physical exercise (aerobic and anaerobic) on healthy and pathological subjects. Application of the studies in our medical work. We proposed and we propose physical exercise as prevention, as cardiovascular rehabilitation but also as a“coadjuvant drug”. After the Medical examination we study the fitness profile and consequently we prescribe a personal training.

3. Purpose Promotion of physical and mental health through sport (indoor and outdoor in a natural environment) in different age subjects, involving the school and the work place. Training of the sports University Students according to the input of “Sport for All 2008”

4. Methods Questionaire completed by 3000 children aged 6-13 to offer them the opportunity to voice their opinions about the sport schools and to collect information about their lifestyle, their health, their problems Results compared with those of the same questionnaire proposed in 2002

5. Methods Examination of two different groups of working subjects: 25 employers and amministrators of a village (aged 30/55) 124 italian soldiers (aged 28/60) Medical examination (including ECG, blood routine tests, etc.) Fitness profile with the American College of Sport Medicine method

8. Program of multidisciplinary training including sport climbing

9. Climbing is a spontaneous movement but children are loosing it.

11. Climbing is a pleasent movement for muscular training articulations’ mobility flexibility of all the rachis

14. Methods Examination after 3 months and after 1 year

15. Graduation thesis of 5 students of the sport University of Perugia on Sport for All health topics through projects involving local and immigrant people, specially promoving the sports in a natural environement (hiking, swimming, nordik walking, plain air gymnasium)