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EDITORIAL

Numerous mechanisms of the impact of exercise/sports activity on our health and 
quality of life have been addressed several times in previous studies, and their direct 
and indirect impact on an individual and the wider society has been proven many ti-
mes. Nevertheless, the field of study of individual motor, cognitive, and nutritional 
intervention remains one of the most interesting and effective, as well as economically 
acceptable, approaches within the framework of public health solutions. At times, it 
may seem that only the desire for the ultimate performance of movement with the goal 
of a good sporting result receives an in-depth individual treatment, but this is not the 
case. It is true that with today’s approaches to diagnostics and finding the backgro-
und of a good result, we can get closer to an individual and, on the basis of scientific 
findings, direct further training regimes, as presented by the author of the first article 
in this issue. However, the following three articles bring us closer to the importance 
of individualizing the approach to each user according to their specific needs, dietary 
regimes and exercise incentives. Certain environments are particularly encouraging, 
and the Mediterranean environment is certainly one of the most suitable ones, be it a 
specific natural or social environment. In the final articles and the researchers’ reports, 
we receive further confirmation of how researchers from different corners of the world, 
with different interests, orientations and aims, are jointly oriented towards, more or 
less, the same goal. How to ensure a healthy and quality life for modern people, entan-
gled in many (virtual) communication networks, supported by innovative technologies 
of the digitalized world, which, due to their own development, has fallen into more or 
less planned, and, unfortunately, unsolicited and unwanted anthropological and eco-
logical transformations? Often we think we know several solutions; however, either 
with a quick glance around us or following research on these indicators, the opposite is 
confirmed. Never in the familiar history of mankind have we communicated so poorly, 
never have we been so unsociable, or so mentally and functionally labile and incapable. 
Therefore, there is still a lot of room for research and the work of kinesiologists and 
many other professionals who strive in similar directions.

Prof. Rado Pišot, PhD
Editor in Chief



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UVODNIK

Številni mehanizmi vpliva gibalne/športne dejavnosti na zdravje in kakovost ži-
vljenja so bili v predhodnih študijah že večkrat obravnavani, njihov neposreden in po-
sreden vpliv na posameznika in širšo družbo pa tudi že večkrat dokazan. Kljub temu 
je področje proučevanja posameznih gibalnih, kognitivnih in prehranskih intervencij 
še vedno eden najzanimivejših in najučinkovitejših ter ne nazadnje tudi ekonomično 
najsprejemljivejših pristopov v okviru javnozdravstvenih rešitev. Včasih se zdi, da je le 
želja vrhunske izvedbe gibanja zaradi športnega rezultata deležna poglobljene indivi-
dualne obravnave, vendar ni tako. Res je sicer, da se z današnjimi pristopi v diagnostiki 
in iskanju ozadij dobrega rezultata posamezniku lahko popolnoma približamo in na 
osnovi znanstvenih ugotovitev usmerjamo nadaljnje trenažne pristope, kot so predsta-
vili avtorji prvega prispevka v izdaji revije, ki je pred vami. Vendar pa nam naslednji 
trije prispevki zelo nazorno približajo pomen individualizacije pristopa za vsakega 
uporabnika glede na njegove specifične potrebe, prehranske režime in gibalne spodbu-
de. Pri tem so določena okolja še posebej spodbudna in sredozemsko je z vsem, kar mu 
nudita posebno naravno in družbeno okolje, prav gotovo eno najprimernejših. V konč-
nih prispevkih, poročilih raziskovalcev, pa lahko dobimo le še dodatne potrditve, kako 
so raziskovalci na različnih koncih sveta, z različnimi interesi, usmeritvami in cilji, ne 
glede na to, od kod prihajajo, skupaj usmerjeni k bolj ali manj enakemu cilju. Kako so-
dobnemu človeku, zapletenemu v številne (virtualne) komunikacijske mreže, podprte 
z inovativnimi tehnologijami digitaliziranega sveta, ki je zaradi svojega razvoja padel 
v bolj ali manj načrtovane, večkrat pa žal tudi neslutene in neželene antropološke in 
ekološke transformacije, zagotoviti zdravo in kakovostno življenje? Večkrat menimo, 
da poznamo ogromno rešitev, že bežen pogled okoli sebe in še toliko bolj raziskani 
kazalniki pa kažejo prav nasprotno. Nikoli v nam znani zgodovini človeštva nismo tako 
slabo komunicirali, se družili, bili duševno in funkcionalno tako labilni in nezmožni. 
Torej je prostora za raziskave in delo kineziologov in številnih drugih strokovnjakov, ki 
si prizadevajo za to, še veliko. 

Prof. dr. Rado Pišot,
glavni in odgovorni urednik