Present:
Zlatan Spiridonović, Fitness Academy
Matija Dunaj, Fitness Academy
Mirna Hajnic, Fitness Academy
Marija Jurina, Fitness Academy
Panos Balatsinos, Base Training
Alexandros Ladas, Base Training
Ioanna Kontele, Center for Education and Treatment for Eating Disorders
Evangelos Zoumbaneas, Center for Education and Treatment for Eating Disorders
Dimitris Voudouris, Center for Education and Treatment for Eating Disorders
The meeting was held in Athens, Greece on February 9th.
It started with the opening words of Matija Dunaj, principal of Fitness Academy, about the Academy and the project. After that the representatives of the eating disorder center introduced their work and collaboration with Base Training.
Here are some specifics. Ioanna Kontele said that in Greece people with eating disorder are immediately put on the psychiatric ward, for there is no eating disorder ward. Ioanna emphasizes the innovation of the project Brighter Side of Exercise, because there is a lack of eating disorder educated trainers who would be included in the process of anorexia treatment and post treatment. Their center has educated over 400 specialist from whom only 4 trainers/kinesiologist.
For example, their practice in the center is to include the trainer the first day of treatment so he can cooperate with all the other experts (nutritionist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist,…).
They include patients in physical activity with 15-16 BMI, according to their daily calorie intake.
Depending on the situation their trainer will use methods of exercise like Yoga, Pilates, light weights. The cardio exercise will be used only to maintain the positive outcome or for warmup.
The patients that com in the center are not committed and they rely on their family to help them through the treatment.
The feedback is good and after 5 years the patients are without relapse.
One more information that we got from them was that the percentage of boys suffering from eating disorders is growing and more than 15 percent of patients have abused exercising.
Dimitris Voudouris, trainer, emphasizes the importance of evaluating good time to redirect the patient to nutritionist or any of other experts before it is too late.
They have good practice in private training, not in a group.
Base Training Boot Camp fitness convention was held on February 10th.
Present:
Zlatan Spiridonović, Fitness Academy
Matija Dunaj, Fitness Academy
Mirna Hajnic, Fitness Academy
Marija Jurina, Fitness Academy
Panos Balatsinos, Base Training
Alexandros Ladas, Base Training
The schedule allowed us to attend a Pilates class and gather further methods that could be used for treatment in anorexia patients as well as some methods of exercise that use bodyweight.
