Mayo Clinic Pedometer

The significance of Garmin Vivofit 3 is the combination of waterproof and disposable coin battery. Since users can wear the Vivofit 3 even in the shower and don’t need to take it off to charge, they can wear it all the time in one year, which means users will not miss out any activities (such as steps) or lose the band when they take it off. The reason why I think it’s significant is that I had a Fitbit band. It’s not waterproof, so I need to take it off every day before shower. Also, I need to take if off and recharge it every few days. The problem was, the Fitbit band is really difficult to snap on. I only used it for three months because it was so inconvenient. From user’s perspective, I don’t want a complicated band that track a lot of

Physical activity is a very important aspect of an individual’s life. There are many health benefits to being physically active. Living an active life helps to prevent and lower the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, depression, and heart disease (Tuso, 2015). Healthy People 2020 (2018) states that about 80% of adults and adolescents do not meet the physical activity guidelines. Staying active may be difficult if there are no community resources to help. The intention of this paper is to implement interventions within Paulding County that will help increase physical activity among community members.

I thought about what would be a good improvement project that would allow me to use the PDSA cycle and improve my life. Therefore, after much thought it would be good to increase my exercise activity than what I currently do. I have a heart condition that stopped me from doing any exercise. It took a little over two years, but with medication and blood work, the physicians now say it would be fine to add some exercise to my routine, but I am only allowed to do walking. On an average day, I manage around 2,000 steps, so my plan is to increase my steps to 10,000 a day. I will have mini-goals to reach my final goal of 10,000 steps a day. I can easily monitor my habit with my walking app on my phone. In addition, I will be tracking it in Excel

National Physical Activity Guidelines, which provide information to the citizens about the reasons for having a more active lifestyle and how to implement this in a day-to-day life.

Goal setting is an excellent way for students to track and improve upon physical fitness levels. The importance of being able to set goals and to try to achieve them is that each individual student can assess where they are and set goals to improve. Not all students can achieve the same fitness standards. Some students are born with more muscle mass or more fast twitch muscle fibers than other students. Some students have asthma or other physical difficulties that make it difficult to measure up with other students when all students are required to get a certain score on a fitness test to get an A. Using goal setting where all students can be successful by reaching their goals and showing improvement could be a positive influence for future motivation. While problem based learning can help students to learn and use goal setting (Hubball 2006), goal setting may not always help students to achieve greater fitness levels. Hill (2015) found that those students who set goals over an 18 week period did not have any significant improvement over those students that did not set goals on the pacer and push up tests. Similarly, in another study looking at the effects of goal setting on Native elders found only a weak correlation between goal setting and improvement on the amount of steps taken in a day using a pedometer (Sawchuck 2011). The problem with this study was that the researchers set the goals for the participants. It may be more important that students set their own

In unit four, we learned about the various subjective and objective methods of measurement for assessing physical activity. Learning that each method of measurement has its own advantages and disadvantages. Making it more challenging to accurately measure physical activity. For the activity part of unit four, we were told to take the “International Participation and Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)” survey. Once completing the survey, we were told to discuss why the last seven days of activity should be assessed instead of a 30-day period. When taking the survey, I realized that it was very easy for me to recall the types of physical activity I had done over the last seven days. However, I experienced trouble with remembering more precise

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about how exercise controls weight, combats health conditions and diseases, and improves mood.

In a surface examination of the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is quickly evident that no good things come from the wilderness. Therein, the wilderness is often associated with the savages and the devil. In his work The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne finds herself exiled by society for having an adulterous affair with the town reverend which brought forth the child known as Pearl. Pearl is quickly established as the child of the wilderness: wild, capricious, and thought by the town to be a demon-child. She represents several entities in the novel just by her being, but when her morality is delved into, much more of the nature of the story can be revealed. Pearl’s role is often overlooked as a formative force in the novel. Some scholars have gone as far as to denounce her as unnecessary to the story’s makeup. Upon close examination, it can be determined that Pearl is indeed a necessary element. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Pearl presents themes of morality, both personal and cultural, as well as the divide between society and nature, through her interactions with Hester, Reverend Dimmesdale, and the scarlet letter itself.

One such tool that began to be used in the measurement of activity levels was the pedometer. This measuring device is best for measuring ambulatory activity and was demonstrated to be a decent tool for this sake. A study of physical activity in American adults wanted to test how useful pedometers could be by evaluating participants on health and activity levels and recording the steps accumulated over 2 days of pedometer use (Bassett et al., 2010). This study found that U.S. adults averaged about 5000 steps per day, men averaging slightly higher than women and step counts declining with age. They also found that, along with being a useful tool for measuring ambulatory physical activity, pedometers encouraged participants to move more. However,

Before I came to college I was very physically fit; I used to run anywhere from five to eight miles or more almost every day. While I was running regularly I was also very conscious of what I ate and how many miles I was running every day and I took my physical health very seriously. I stopped running when I got to Toledo my freshmen year with plenty of excuses and I never started up again. The goal for my behavior change project is to increase the amount of physical activity I do daily, specifically running and weight training exercises, for the next four weeks. I plan to track this by keeping a journal with notes of the activity I did each

The purpose of the work is basically to get patients are not active physically to become active. This would be suitable for audiences that have diabetes that are interested in becoming healthier. The information is this article is relevant to the topic because it talks about monitoring glucose in those that are exercising. The unique feature about this study is that it explains and gives us descriptive design of what will be used to describe physical activity patterns and glucose levels for 72 hours in nine exercising adults that have type 2 diabetes. The strength in this article is that it is positive in trying to find ways to keep diabetic patients healthy.

I have always been physically active and I have participated in many sports and athletic activities and programs throughout my life. However, one thing that I have never considered to improve my fitness was just going out for a walk! Engaging in walking activity has improved so many areas of my life. I have become more health conscience and through this new perspective I have begun to make better fitness decisions that are helping me live a happier, healthier life. I first noticed a change in my fitness level when I was at soccer summer camp. At the camp, we had to run a mile around the field. I remember how last summer I had been really out of shape and I had struggled to run the course. However, this summer, because of my keeping up with my walking program

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to start walking to improve their mental and physical health.

The U.S. Administration on Aging has approved this program. The goal of ALED is to help people make positive changes to improve their health and well being by incorporating physical activity into their daily lives. The program is intended for adults of all ages but will be modified to adults older than 65 for the purposes of this community-based plan. This program was started because approximately 60% is inadequately active or not active at all. Although healthcare providers regularly prescribe exercise, traditional methods have not shown to increase or maintain regular physical activity. It is a 12 or 20-week program group-based program with classes ideally ranging from 10-20 people (can be smaller or one-on-one). It includes a series of group classes, online assessments, learning activities, books, and individual guidance to acquire strategies about not only becoming physically active, but maintaining that lifestyle as well. The members learn to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives and are encouraged to set goals and create an action plan. In the group discussions, they learn what type of exercise, frequency, amount and intensity that will work best for them. The participants do the exercises on their own time and track their progress (Active Living Partners,

Moreover, exercise is essential to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. As people age, it is becomes harder to stay healthy and strong. As Davis (2007) includes in the IDEA Fitness Journal, “Nearly half of adults between the ages of 50 and 64 live with at least one chronic condition, such as arthritis, hypertension, diabetes or heart disease, all of which can be improved through exercise (IHRSA 2004).” Therefore, this aerobics program will be very beneficial to the client’s health. Movement is necessary in living a long healthy life, and that is what this program is all about. Physical health can add to one’s mental health as well. When one is comfortable in his or her own body, he or she will be more likely to be comfortable in every other aspect of his or her