CELAFISCS Manifesto +10

13 Calls to Action for the Promotion of Physical Activity and Public Health.

In 2020, faced with the COVID-19 pandemic and its profound impacts on daily life, the Center for Studies of the Physical Fitness Research Laboratory of São Caetano do Sul (CELAFISCS) launched the “International Manifesto for the Promotion of Physical Activity Post-COVID-19” with a collective call to action. Its recommendations reaffirmed the importance of movement for health and highlighted the need to expand opportunities for an active life, reduce sedentary behavior and inequalities, and connect individuals, communities, and institutions toward the development of public policies in this area.

Six years later, many of these principles remain relevant. At the same time, new scientific evidence and social, environmental, and technological transformations have expanded the challenges and possibilities for promoting physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior. Every minute counts: recent studies show that even brief bouts of vigorous physical activity incorporated into daily life can be associated with significant health benefits. The advancement of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, along with growing attention to different life trajectories, equity, social participation, governance, and the impacts of climate change, invite us to revisit and update that call.

The CELAFISCS Manifesto+10 arises from this continuity and transformation. Rather than merely updating the 2020 Manifesto, it seeks to strengthen its principles and expand its reach—connecting knowledge, people, environments, and policies to create conditions and opportunities that foster a physically active life.

We thus present 13 Calls to Action directed at individuals, professionals, communities, institutions, and governments. They stem from a simple yet fundamental idea: every movement counts, if performed by choice. At the same time, opportunities to move do not depend solely on individual choices: they must also be enabled and constructed collectively.

The Manifesto did not end in 2020

The public presentation launched a process of dissemination, endorsement, dialogue, and creation of new content.

2020
Launch of the Original Manifesto

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+600
Endorsements from individuals and organizations.

Formats
Newsletters, Seminars, Podcasts, E-Book.

2026
Continuity – A new cycle to update and expand.

Why revisit the Manifesto six years later?

Many principles remain the same. The context, however, has expanded.

  • New evidence showing that even brief moments of physical activity can bring benefits.
  • Digital transformation and artificial intelligence create new possibilities.
  • Different life stages, barriers, and opportunities must be considered.
  • Promoting physical activity requires coordination between individuals, communities, and institutions.
  • Environmental conditions also shape the opportunities for movement.

The Manifesto +10 seeks to strengthen its principles and expand its reach.

These 13 calls address choice, opportunity, environment, knowledge, policy, and collective responsibility.

A manifesto only gains meaning when its ideas are transformed into action. The 13 Calls to Action presented here are not a final destination, but an invitation for individuals, professionals, communities, institutions, companies, and governments to recognize their role in building a more active society.

Creating opportunities for movement requires—beyond knowledge and individual choices—cross-sector public policies that encompass education, supportive environments, inclusion, social participation, innovation, integrated strategies, and collective commitment. Different contexts will require different paths, but all can contribute to making movement a greater part of daily life.

The challenges of the coming years will differ from those that gave rise to the 2020 Manifesto, and new ones will certainly emerge. Therefore, promoting physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior require an ongoing capacity to learn, adapt, cooperate, and act. The time has come for a massive task force—a call to action—to bridge the gap between the robust scientific evidence demonstrating the importance of physical activity for health and its effective implementation across all settings, from individual interventions to public policy.

Every minute counts.
Every step counts.
Every movement counts.

Any physical activity you do is a gift to yourself. Without that gift, there is no future.

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Move more, sit less! Every opportunity to move, especially when it is a matter of personal choice, can contribute to better health. Aim to accumulate physical activity throughout the week, working toward the recommended minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity per week. Remember, however, that health benefits can occur even below these levels. Reduce the time you spend sitting and, whenever possible, replace it with movement, including light-intensity activity. Every step counts, ideally ,for pleasure rather than out of obligation.

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Engage in regular moderate-intensity physical activity to support immune system function. Regular moderate-intensity physical activity contributes to the functioning and regulation of the immune system throughout life. Physical activity at different intensities can provide health benefits and should be tailored to each individual’s circumstances, abilities, and goals.

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Transform schools into environments that promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior. Increase encouragement and opportunities for children and adolescents to be physically active throughout the school day, recognizing physical activity as a right and an essential part of education. More active schools can contribute to students’ health, learning, development, and well-being.

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Create opportunities for everyone to be physically active throughout life. The possibilities for movement change according to people’s living conditions, interests, and the different stages and transitions in their lives. Providing diverse experiences suited to these different stages can encourage people to discover, maintain, or return to a more active lifestyle.

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Promote active mobility and leisure-time physical activity as rights and opportunities for a healthier life. nCreating conditions for walking, cycling, participating in sports, playing games, and engaging in other physical activities in public spaces expands the possibilities for movement in everyday life. Safe, accessible, and suitable environments encourage active mobility and leisure-time physical activity, contributing to health, quality of life, and well-being.

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Integrate digital technologies and artificial intelligence into physical activity promotion strategies, expanding access, personalization, and support for behavior change. The digital transformation accelerated by the pandemic must now be translated into action. Digital platforms, telehealth, and motivational agents can bring people, professionals, and services closer together, reducing inequalities and contributing to more active and healthier societies through ethical, evidence-based approaches.

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Promote physical activity with equity, inclusion, and safeguarding. Recognize and reduce social, economic, cultural, environmental, and accessibility barriers that limit movement and participation, particularly among groups in vulnerable situations. Ensure opportunities that address diverse needs and circumstances, incorporating safeguarding principles and fostering safe, respectful environments free from violence, abuse, harassment, and discrimination, so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of a physically active life.

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Turn knowledge into action by connecting global evidence with local needs. Strengthening the capacity of health professionals, particularly physical education professionals, to translate, adapt, and apply scientific knowledge to different contexts helps bridge the gap between evidence and practice and improves the quality of physical activity promotion initiatives.

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Develop public policies and community initiatives with public participation. Engaging local stakeholders and communities in the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of physical activity promotion initiatives helps ensure that the needs, characteristics, and potential of each local area are taken into account.

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Strengthen the physical activity promotion ecosystem through collaborative, cross-sectoral, and innovative governance. Coordinating stakeholders, resources, knowledge, and strategies enhances the capacity to plan, sustain, and improve physical activity promotion initiatives in response to present and future challenges.

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Integrate public policies through intersectoral actions that create conditions for an active life. Bringing together health, education, sports, mobility, and urban planning, among other sectors, expands opportunities to incorporate movement into everyday life and enables different sectors to contribute efficiently and effectively to physical activity promotion.

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Consider the domains and circumstances of physical activity, as well as climate change, in physical activity promotion strategies. Recognizing where physical activity takes place — during leisure time, at work, during transportation, or in domestic settings — the conditions under which it is performed, including whether by choice or necessity, and how climate change affects these activities helps us better understand their different contexts and impacts. These differences can expand or limit opportunities for movement and should be taken into account to promote physical activity in ways that are healthier, more sustainable, and more socially and environmentally just.

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Recognize physical activity as a right and a collective responsibility. A physically active life depends not only on individual choices but also on the social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions that expand or limit opportunities for movement. Individuals, communities, institutions, organizations, and governments share the responsibility for creating conditions that enable everyone to be physically active safely, with autonomy, and with enjoyment.

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COLLECTIVE ELABORATION

Ana Miragaya

GPEO-UERJ
e-Museu do Esporte

Antonio Carlos Bramante

Professor da UNICAMP (Aposentado)
Coordenador do Laboratório de Gestão das Experiências de Lazer
LAGEL/GESPORTE/FEF-UnB

Beatriz Ferreira

Grupo de pesquisa NGIME-UFJF
Vice Presidente IAPESGW

Bruno Gualano

Professor na Faculdade de Medicina da USP

Dartagnan Pinto guedes

Professor na Faculdade de Educação Física da Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Douglas Roque Andrade

GEPAF / EACH / USP / CEPEDOC

Francisco Pitanga

Professor na Faculdade de Educação Física da Universidade Federal da Bahia

Laércio Elias Pereira

Coordenador do Centro Esportivo Virtual (CEV)

Lamartine Pereira da Costa

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro-UERJ
Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências do Exercício e do Esporte

Luís Carlos de Oliveira

CELAFISCS
Programa Agita São Paulo

Luiz Guilherme Grossi Porto

Grupo de Estudos em Fisiologia e Epidemiologia do Exercício e da Atividade Física – GEAFS
FEF / UnB

Victor Keihan Rodrigues Matsudo

CELAFISCS
Programa Agita São Paulo

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