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SMARTfit Multisensory Learning Develops the Brain and the Body

A 30 minute PE

class on SMARTfit

helps the brain to

learn better

SMARTfit and BDNF –Essential for Every Developing Child• Early studies indicate that exercise stimulates one of

the brain's most powerful growth factors, BDNF, which aids in the development of healthy tissue.

• BDNF exerts a fertilizer-like growth effect on certain neurons in the brain. The protein keeps existing neurons young and healthy, rendering them much more willing to connect with one another.

• It also encourages neurogenesis, the formation of new cells in the brain. The cells most sensitive to this are in the hippocampus, inside the very regions deeply involved in human cognition.

• Exercise increases the level of usable BDNF inside those cells. The more you exercise, the more fertilizer you create."

• Harvard psychiatrist, John Ratey refers to BDNF as “Miracle-Gro for the brain”. He calls BDNF “a crucial biological link between thought, emotions, and movement.”

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SMARTfit Explained

SMARTfit programs are designed to stimulate the body and the brain concurrently. This is accomplished by:

• Encouraging team participation and engaging sustained focus with short-attention grabbing computer games that are played sequentially to pursue mastery of skills

• Providing full body motor exercise using the hands, feet, eyes, ears, and vestibular system (stimulating the proprioceptive input to the motor and vestibular systems) in playing real games with real equipment (not simulated)

• Requiring high levels of attention and focus for success (staying consciously “in-the-now”)

• Engaging in cognitive decision-making under pressure

• Delivering a cardiovascular workout in a game format

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SMARTfit – Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together

When kids are challenged to think and make decisions while

doing cardio, motor and skill exercises, the brain quickly

adapts:

▪ Processing Information Faster

▪ Building memory, retention and recall

▪ Increasing Attention Span

▪ Managing Stress Better

▪ Improving Executive Strategy & Technique Under Pressure

The Brain Interacts with the World Through the Body

Hebbian Theory –Winner 2011 Nobel Prize“Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together”

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Neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to re-wire itself in response to sensoryexperiences, is now accepted Science.

SMARTfit programming goes further,embracing Hebbian Theory withtechnology and programming designedto simultaneously engage cognitiveproblem solving while requiring users toengage their whole body to deliveranswers by triggering intelligent targetsto earn game scores.

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SMARTfit – Releases the Happy Hormones Improving Mood, School Attendance, and

Test Scores

• Dopamine

• Norepinephrine

• Serotonin

• Endorphins

Reducing absenteeism, aggression and out-of-school suspensions

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What makes SMARTfit different?• SMARTfit target technology uniquely uses digital

technology to operate target touch sensitivity. • Target screens are driven by their own computer.• Each target (up to 36 wired or wireless in a cluster)

can interact with each other and are driven by their master controller.

• Targets are capable of delivering advanced scalable programming under user-defined settings.

• SMARTfit touch sensitive technology can recognize and adjust to a wide range of user-definable settings ranging from light touch of a finger to the heavy impact of a medicine ball.

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The SMARTfit iOS/Android App Difference

SMARTfit App Key Features

• Trainers/teachers Database• Stored lesson plans• Keep track of test scores • Assessment of abilities• Scoring: High Score, Low Score and

Average• Graph Results• Comparison over period of time• Create Categories List of Activities• Measure Development, Progress &

Achievements

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SMARTfit’s Proprietary Products and Operating System

• Time• Score• Sensor Reading• Games• User Password Protection• User defined game Parameters• Saved session/lesson plans• Data Collection

16 X 16 dot matrix target screen +

sensor includes its own CPU

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Wireless connects to up to 18 targets Wired connects to up to 36 targets

Group Competition Stations

SMARTfit – Validated by Neuroscience

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“Human nervous system functions invariably involve

a combination of cognitive and motor components.

I am extremely intrigued and optimistic that

SMARTfit will prove to be an exceptionally effective

and important tool that combines cognitive and

motor training in unique and endless combinations

to address a multitude of indications within the

athletic and medical realms.

I look forward to working closely with you to quantify

and document these benefits, optimally integrating

them within neurorestoration/athletic/academic

training continuum.”

Charles Y. Liu, PhD, MD

Professor, Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Biomemedical

Engineering USC Director, USC Neurorestoration Center

SMARTfit’s Goal Is To

Train the whole person, including the brain, to be fit, happy, strong and well