Ministry debuts nationwide physical fitness screening campaign
The Turkish Health Ministry has launched a nationwide initiative aimed at tackling rising obesity rates and sedentary lifestyles by introducing a “movement age” assessment for citizens.
The campaign, titled “Know Your Movement Age, Live Healthy,” offers free physical fitness screenings across the country to evaluate how old the body performs in terms of strength, balance, and functional capacity.
The program determines an individual’s movement age through a set of standardized tests conducted mainly by physiotherapists.
These include a hand grip dynamometer test to measure overall muscle strength, a 30-second sit-to-stand test to assess lower body function and endurance and balance evaluations designed to gauge stability and coordination.
