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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Student Perceptions are the KEY DRIVERS
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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
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↑Active lifestyle↑ Fitness
Well-being
Fun & Enjoyment
Lifestyle (sleep,
nutrition, etc)
Perceived skills
The Whole Student Approach
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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“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
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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
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SIMPLE Wellness & Activity Monitoring
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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
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Wellness Questionnaire
Fitness Profile
FitnessProgress
IndividualProgram
ActivityRecording
Teacher & Administrator Tools
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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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