Advancing the Health & Fitness of Children and Adolescents & Promoting Physical Activity in Physical Education - A WHOLE STUDENT APPROACH

1. Advancing the Health & Fitness
of Children and Adolescents &
Promoting Physical Activity in
Physical Education
A WHOLE STUDENT APPROACH
By FITSTATS Technologies Inc.

2. 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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3. 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

4. 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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5. ↑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
1
Help 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

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 children
http://www.interventioncentral.org/node/961544
Source: blogs.ubc.ca
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7. 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)
MVPA
Any 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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

13. The FITSTATS
Wellness Solution

14. 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

15. 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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16. SIMPLE Wellness & Activity Monitoring
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Student
Self-
report
Well-being
questionnaire
System
Interprets Data
& Generate
Alerts
How to
fix
advices
Instant
access to
individual &
group data
Teacher
receives
Immediate
alerts
Post-
session
feedback

17. Student Tools
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Wellness
Questionnaire
Fitness
Profile
Fitness
Progress
Individual
Program
Activity
Recording

18. Teacher & Administrator Tools
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Wellness dashboard Program design Fitness assessment
Wellness monitoring Alerts & Risk assessment Statistics and reporting

19. 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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