VAT Academy – VAT Academy

ITA

Obesity constantly increases the risk of many chronic diseases in children and adults. The epidemic of obesity caused by the interaction of environmental, genetic and family factors. Overweight, especially obesity is a major risk factor for many pathologies, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, osteoarticular pathologies and tumors with a consequent reduction in quality and life expectancy.

In fact obesity affects 46% of adults, 21% of children have overweight and 9% suffer from full-blown obesity in Italy. A large amount of research is now directed toward better understanding and treating obesity, and substantial public health efforts and directed towards reducing obesity rates. The sedentary lifestyle is one of the biggest triggers. The rehabilitation of the obese patient mainly uses two tools: adequate nutrition, defining the correct energy intake, and increasing the volume of physical activity. The ACSM recommends that adults do at least 150 minutes of intense-moderate physical activity every week, to have an improvement in the state of health and body composition. The biggest problem for obese patients is to undergo such a truly effective volume of physical activity.

WHAT IS VAT?

Vertical Aquatic Training is a training method aimed at obese or overweight people, poorly trained, suffering from heart disease with reduced joint mobility, even over 65. It has water as its chosen environment and therefore allows the patient to perform that performance with reduced stress articulate from exercise aimed at improving the state of metabolic fitness and body composition.

VAT offers solution for people who follows its training protocol. You have the possibility of losing weight, maintaining metabolic balance and achieving cardiovascular and skeletal muscle efficiency, experiencing motor patterns that stimulate proprioception, joint stability and balance.

THE CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUALITY

Not a methodology that is the same for everyone, but a training strategy which helps lose-weight.

VAT offers circuit exercises developed according to the subject’s motor skills, whether it is healthy obese, orthopedic or cardiopathic, essentially in orthostatic order and uses biometric technologies that allow you to manage and detect workloads in water for effective programming.

WHO WE ARE

Athletic Trainers, Water-exercise qualified instructors, Metabolic Fitness qualified specialist, Sport doctors, Orthopedists and Cardiologists who offer their know-how in the treatment and prevention of obesity.

Mission

The Obesity magazine of June 2019 denounces the epidemic proportions of obesity and that only a small percentage of patients receive adequate treatment in relation to the pathology from which they suffer because “most doctors do not receive adequate education or training on the management of weight, therefore does not feel competent in providing treatment.” As a result obesity underlines the importance of adequately training doctors and operators in the sector who can provide adequate advice on weight management to all patients suffering from obesity.

The VAT program is intended to be a contribution and set of obesity-related skills and benchmarks.

The Vertical Aquatic Training therefore falls between the virtuous practices that an obese patient can implement: acknowledging that an obesity chronic disease a pragmatic path based on scientific evidence credited and actually usable to be implemented in the water and distinctly environment congenial to the needs of overweight patients.