American Council On Exercise/Joining Forces Chelby Calhoun University of New Orleans American Council on Exercise (ACE)/Joining Forces The initiative/program I chose was the American Council on Exercise working with Joining Forces. ACE, founded in 1985, is a non-profit organization out of San Diego, California. This initiative started due to a group of individuals believing that preventive measures were the way to approach the obesity and chronic disease epidemic. Thirty years have passed and ACE is now the largest, most trusted organization to provide health and fitness to the public. The organization is ever growing, vowing to make a change within itself on a yearly bases. ACE does several things such as: educate and certify health and fitness professionals, develop and distribute publications, serves as America’s Authority on Fitness, connects the public with qualified professionals, and build relationships with policy makers. The initial target group for ACE starts with getting individuals to become certified professional trainers, health coaches, and specialty coaches. All of ACE’s professionals appear on a registry found at USreps.org. This registry allows individuals to feel secure in that the professional, from a certified trainer to a specialist, they are working with is legitimate. ACE provides continuing education, research outcomes, and workshops in order to be more affective. By increasing the number of professionals there
Exercise means to do a physical activity for the improvement of health and the body. In an over expanding society, this word has been viewed in various lights especially when it is combined with the word cult. The question being asked by society is: is the tribe mentality in the exercise comunity good? Some may argue that being in a supportive group is an essential element of a good exercise program. While there might be reason to believe that, a tribal mentality should not be accepted in the exercise community because it brings antagonistic attitudes and cult-like manners to a certain group.
The office of disease prevention and health promotes is a federal agency that promotes a healthy lifestyle and lifestyle choices through endeavors such as health education as well as other activities such as setting health goals. The two initiatives that I looked at ere the Dietary guidelines and the physical activity guidelines. The dietary guidelines are updated every 5 years and use scientific knowledge to recommend healthy nutritional choices for all people. The current guidelines on their website are from 2010 and contain 3 major goals which are to get people eating healthier foods like fruits and vegetables, to get people to stop eating unhealthy foods like junk food and processed foods that are high in unhealthy additives,
Athletic trainers are nearly everywhere. Most high schools, colleges, semi pro teams, Olympic teams, professional teams and basically any other organized athletic association has them. But unbelievably this is the type of exchange that happens a lot when engaging in conversation. Although Athletic Trainers are on TV all the time, we are usually referred to as "trainers" by the talent at ESPN or local news organizations.
Athletic Trainers are certified healthcare professionals who work mainly in the specialty of sport medicine. These professionals collaborate with physicians to treat athletes with preventative care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic exercises and emergency care. They are expected to recognize injuries and provide first aide. Athletic trainers also develop and carry exercise action plans for athletes who are injured and for injury prevention. These action plans may include therapeutic programs and performance testing.
The Better Health Association is a nonprofit company whose objective is simply to increase the health of people through health education, guidance, and diagnosis screening programs. They make an attempt to assist audiences of any age and socioeconomic ranges to gain knowledge of living an even healthy life-style and creating the know-how required to develop healthy and balanced choices. "My role within the company is to secure agreements from at least three major area advertising and marketing agencies to underwrite the creation and production of all Better Health special event programs for the next three to four years. I also, create an active and positive presence for the agency in state-of-the-art social media venues that results in recruitment and assistance to new clients. Monitor and track results quarterly. In addition to, developing systematic marketing plans that address every operational area of Better Health including client services, all fund raising events and general association promotion in all media venues" (https://bluequill.franklin.edu, n.d.).
The start of my exercise science journey began when I was a little kid. I played sports throughout my childhood and into my senior year of high school but my desire to really exercise started when I went to gym class. I thought our Gym teacher, Mrs. Starnes was the coolest lady and I enjoyed how she could talk about our bodies and knew different activities that got everyone to exercise. Also, I loved watching college football and baseball as a child and remember seeing that when the athletes would get hurt; that they would get help from one or two people who would try to find out the problem and what happened. When I was little, I did not know that the job that I saw on television would be one that I would be aiming towards as I got older.
The third career that suits me well is Athletic training. Athletic trainers are still the same as physical assistant and medical assistants in some kind of way. Athletic trainers treat muscles and bone injuries and certain illnesses. Providing first aid or emergency care is a duty. At a sporting event athletic trainers will go see the hurt athlete and to see where their discomfort is at.
Both Healthy Alaskans 2020 and Healthy People 2020 have similar goals: increase the number of people who exercise everyday or weak. The starting point, the first action, is always educating the public or school so that people will understand that exercise is something that will prevent obesity and will greatly improve people’s health, which could also affect the length of a person’s lifespan. Along the starting point, assistance from other organizations and programs are needed in order to carry out the action. Moreover, depending on who the audience is, there will be different ways of educating them. For example, a way to teach students would be to have presenters and more exciting activities that will make students want to participate. Another example is to provide easy access to the public so that more and more people will consider exercising. Small events such as sports competitions will also entice the people. Though the goals are the same, the strategies and plans on how the goal is met
In order to become an athletic trainer, a person must be able to fulfill all of the educational and training requirements from high school, university/college, and certified training. While in high school, students need to be able to focus on communication skills in order to speak with clients as well as science courses that they will apply to their future career. The following courses that a student must complete before reaching college or university in high school are biology, human anatomy and physiology, and chemistry. Taking English courses like Speech and Debate will help further a person's communication skills. After graduating with a high school diploma, the student will go on to university to expand their knowledge on the basic and
Helping Athletes To Safely Reach Their Peak Performance: Athletic Training Degree (1197 Words) Are you passionate about sport and enjoy working with people? Would you like to help athletes reach their full potential while spending your days working in an unconventional work environment? If so, an athletic training degree could be just what you need to set things in motion for a rewarding career as a certified athletic trainer. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into training for any type of sport and as a trainer you’ll be able to help athletes achieve their goals. Becoming a certified athletic trainer can enable you to become one of the driving forces behind successful athletes.
The room is loud and boisterous; the other team is ahead by a point, and the home team has ten seconds on the clock. The pressure is on the home team on making the basket. As the time outs are depleted the home team happens to have the opportunity to drive takingadvantage, one of the boys drives into the lane making the final shot. A piercing screech makes the crowd go silent there lays the all-star player. Nobody dares make a soundthe thumping sounds come from the footsteps nearing the injured teen. A middle-aged brown hair lady comes to the scene, asking the former basketball star what happened and where the pain is coming from. Scanning the player’s leg and seeing the swollen ankle she comes to the conclusion that it is a sprained ankle,
The requirements for an Athletic Trainer is a bachelor's degree, but you may also get a graduate degree. While in the bachelor’s program you will encounter classroom and hands on learning. The studies include science, and health related studies such as nutrition, kinesiology, biomechanics, and exercise physiology. After college or during college you must gain experience before you can be an Athletic Trainer. The experience requirements are supervised time in clinics and internships that may be with a college or local professional sports team. After earning your degree in Athletic training in most states you are required to have a license or registered and that is according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Your license and registration are from the Board of Certification. In order to qualify to have your license or to be registered you must have a degree from an accredited school and pass a
Athletic Training What are athletic trainers (ATs)? What type of work do athletic trainers do? Those are two common question that a lot of people ask to themselves. Most people believe that athletic trainers are just people who help trained the team in which they have to basically tell them how to work out and how to eat, but that’s all wrong about athletic trainers.
The Independent Health Foundation has many different events and seminars for people of all ages and do a great job of not only creating healthy habits in people, but also bringing the community together. They receive their funds to run their organization and its programs through administrative grants, other grant money they receive, their sponsorships, and
Although at first I wanted to become a nutritionist, now I am leaning more towards assessing the current issue where I live, and mobilizing other people in my community who want to better themselves. One idea that I have is to build a fitness center, a place for those who are overweight to feel comfortable to workout. I would try to make membership as exclusive as possible, not to exclude people, but to create a more personal atmosphere. Not only would my members be working out here, but we would also hold meetings, once a week, to talk about the experiences that they have had. I think that the combination of physical exercise and social support, will give optimal results. I think that although anyone could start a business like this, after I have gone through the Public Health program, I will be able to better identify health behaviors, and will be able to create better programs in my community through proper communication.