peh 12

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 enjoy
2
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
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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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