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Advancing the Health & Fitness of Children and Adolescents &

Promoting Physical Activity in Physical Education

A WHOLE STUDENT APPROACH

By FITSTATS Technologies Inc.

The #1 barrier to Physical Activity: Lack of interest

• BARRIERS TO ACTIVE TRANSPORT : parent and child concerns for safety, lack of planning, lack of motivation/time; Physical Environment, travel distance, heavy traffic, traffic dangers, weather, etc

• BARRIERS TO FREE-TIME PA : lack of interest, lack of time, lack of skill , lack of motivation, expense of activities

• BARRIERS TO SCHOOL BASED PA : lack of interest in activities, negative experiences in PE, competitive sports, lack of support from PE, concerns about their inability to demonstrate skills

Russell et al. OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Helping Youth Be More Active. http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/toc/2011/01000

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http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/toc/2011/01000

http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/toc/2011/01000

Student Perceptions are the KEY DRIVERS


Drivers Feeling of well-being

Perceived skill

mastery

Enjoyment with

activity

Behavior change

Increased physical activity

Active Lifestyle

Result Enhanced fitness

Reduced health risks

A program that focuses on maximizing individual well-being, perceived skill mastery and enjoyment with activity will more likely

result in the adoption of an active lifestyle

The CRUCIAL Role of Physical Education

“School PE could be most effective if based on task-involving motivational climate, in which the main objective is increasing students' perceived physical competence, intrinsic motivation, and ENJOYMENT.”

Gråstén A et al. Prediction of enjoyment in school physical education, 2012 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24149199

ESPN- The hidden demographics of youth sports, 2013


↑Active lifestyle↑ Fitness

Well-being

Fun & Enjoyment

Lifestyle (sleep,

nutrition, etc)

Perceived skills

The Whole Student Approach


Identify individual barriers to physical activity

1Help students find activities they enjoy2

Help students self-reflect on their practice and lifestyle

4 Create programs that maximize skill mastery and fun

3

Monitor fitness, enjoyment, progress and reinforce positive behaviors

5 Provide more enjoyable physical activity experience

6

Empowering Students with Self-Monitoring• Simple, effective tool for behavior

change• No equipment required• Encourage student to ‘listen to

their body’• Teach them skills they can apply in

real life, regardless their financial means

• Subjective scales have been proved valid to control exercise intensity in childrenhttp://www.interventioncentral.org/node/961544

Source: blogs.ubc.ca


http://blogs.ubc.ca/asabc/program-design/6-month-training-plan/

Monitoring Physical Activity with sRPE

• High correlation between RPE ratings and measured VO2 (0.67- 0.87) for the 6-15 year old during lifestyle activities

• Session RPE (minutes x RPE) closely reflect physiological responses among children older than 8 years

• sRPE is a a measure of both physical and psychological stress & a better indicator than average heart rate

• Session-RPE works with all activities, not just aerobic ones

RPE Self-rating of exercise intensity (0-10)

Session-RPE (sRPE)Global difficulty of the session

(minutes x RPE (1-10)

MVPAAny activity with a self-rated RPE rating ≥3

“children's perceptions of effort might be used to guide intensity

of exercise during structured activity classes”

Eston et al. Validity of a perceived exertion scale for children: A pilot study, 1994


Activity Trackers – Pros & Cons

• Fun, ‘high-tech’ appeal• Costly, quickly obsolete• No cognitive involvement• Teach to react to a machine• Disconnection body and mind• Accuracy issues• Privacy concerns• Do not measure perceptions (enjoyment, fatigue,

etc)


Heart Rate Monitors - Pros & Cons

• Fun, ‘high-tech’ appeal• Indirect measure of exercise

intensity• 220-age equation does not

predict maximum heart rate – Inacurate HR zones

• HR response is affected by medications (ADHD)

• Do not measure perceptions (enjoyment, fatigue, etc)

Verschuren et al: The 220‐age equation does not predict maximum heart rate in children

and adolescents, 2011


Benefits of the Self-Monitoring Approach

• Helps students self-regulate exercise intensity accurately

• Self-monitoring teach real world skills with real world data that are meaningful to students

• Substantial cost savings

Self-monitoring helps students develop high order thinking and become autonomous in the monitoring of their practice, without

having to reply on external technology


Monitoring Students’ Well-Being – Why?

• Empowers students and families to self-reflect on their lifestyle and required behavior changes

• Provide a way to individually guide students towards physical activities they will enjoy the most

• Simple, non intrusive, completed via smartphone app, tablet or computer

• Allow early detection of well-being, lifestyle or PA programming issues and immediate intervention


Monitoring Fitness – Keep it simple• Increase awareness about the

importance of PA to achieve healthly levels of fitness

• Motivate students to get fitter to improve their scores

• Prove to them them that ‘they can do it!’ • Celebrate progress & individual

successes• Encourage everyone’s participation• Present results in a positive way. Not as

a pass/fail exam.


“If you can’t explain the test and the meaning of the results in a sentence, then things are too complex.”

John M. Cissik @jcissik

The FITSTATS Wellness Solution

What is FITSTATS Wellness

FITSTATS Wellness is a secure, simple and easy to use cloud-based platform to monitor well-being, MPVA, enjoyment, health-related fitness and track the progress, goals and participation of children,

adolescent and adults


FITSTATS Wellness is a Complete Solution for Managing Student-Centric Wellness Programs

Key FEATURES• Cloud-based platform accessible from anywhere by students,

parents, teachers and administrators• Provides a whole student approach to monitoring and assessment• Students can enter data via mobile apps.• System monitors Well-being, enjoyment, MPVA, Healt-Related

Fitness, Skills, etc• Automated alert system identifies issues & ‘at risk’ students• Fully compatible with all assessment protocols (President's

Challenge, FITNESSGRAM ®, etc.)• Includes individual, class, school & district graphs and reports• Fully compliant with the Every Student Succeeds Act and any state

and government standards


SIMPLE Wellness & Activity Monitoring


StudentSelf-

report

Well-being questionnaire System

Interprets Data & Generate

Alerts

How to fix

advices

Instant access to

individual & group data

Teacherreceives

Immediate alerts

Post-session

feedback

Student Tools


Wellness Questionnaire

Fitness Profile

FitnessProgress

IndividualProgram

ActivityRecording

Teacher & Administrator Tools


Wellness dashboard Program design Fitness assessment

Wellness monitoring Alerts & Risk assessment Statistics and reporting

FITSTATS HELPS TO

•Identify wellness, enjoyment and motivational issues and suggests corrective actions•Assess and monitor fitness with your prefered tests and standards•Individualize fitness & physical activity programs•Lower individual barriers to physical activity•Produce data that can be used to motivate students & teach mathematical concepts•Engage and guide students towards a long-term active lifestyle

FITSTATS includes all data management and reporting tools required by a world-class student-centric wellness management program


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Lowering the Barriers to Physical Activity has Never Been so Easy