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Dont Park It!Start Your Engine!Take Yourself
Where You Want to Go
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Surgeon Generals Report on Physical Activity
HealthAdolescents and Young Adults

• Nearly half of American youths (ages 12-21)
  are not vigorously active on a regular basis.
• 14 of young people report no physical
  activity. (Inactivity is more common among
  females, especially black females)
• Participation in physical activity declines
  with age.
• Only 19 of high school students are active
  for 20 minutes or more, 5 days a week.
• Daily enrollment in PE classes dropped from
  42 to 25 between 1991 and 1995.

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Physical Activity among Adults United States
2000(DHHS, May2003)

• Only 19 of American adults engage in a high
  level of physical activity (work and leisure
  time).(gt 80 are not vigorously active on a
  regular basis)
• 25 of American adults engage in little or no
  regular physical activity.

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Physical Activity Guidelines

• National Academy of Sciences Report Dietary
  Reference Intakes (2002)
• The American Heart Association (2000)
• Surgeon Generals Report on Physical Activity
  (1996)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  and The American College of Sports Medicine
  (ACSM) (1995)

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National Academy of Sciences Report Dietary
Reference Intakes (2002)

• 60 minutes of daily moderate physical activity
• Resistance training
• Activities for cardiovascular fitness
• Flexibility

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The American Heart Association (2000)

• Dynamic exercise of large muscles for 30-60
  minutes, 3-6 times weekly (can be in 5-10
  minutes increments)
• Resistance training using 8-10 different exercise
  sets with 10-15 repetitions, at moderate to high
  intensity at least 2 days

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Surgeon Generals Report on Physical Activity
(1996)

• Moderate amount of cardiovascular physical
  activity on most days of the week
• Resistance training with 1-2 exercise sets,
  8-12 repetitions, 2 days per week

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
and The American College of Sports Medicine
(ACSM) (1995)

• Accumulate at least 30 minutes of moderate
  physical activity on most days of the
  week
• Resistance training, a minimum of 1 set,
  8-12 repetitions, 2-3 days a week

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Physical Activity Guidelines for
Adolescents(Presidents Council of Physical
Fitness and Sports)

• All adolescents should be physically active
  daily, or nearly every day, as part of play,
  games, sports, work, transportation, recreation,
  physical education, or planned exercise, in the
  context of family, school, and community
  activities.
• Adolescents should engage in gt 3 sessions/week
  of activities that last gt 20 minutes at a time
  and require moderate to vigorous levels of
  exertion.

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Take the Keys Take Action!

• Knowledge is power, but not without action!
  Now is the time to take action!
• Set goals and create a realistic action plan
  using SMART goals.
• Changing is a challenge. Make the effort.
  Get on the road to wellness!

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Learning is defined as a change in
behavior.You havent learned a thing until you
take action and use it.
From Everyones a Coach by Don Shula and Ken
Blanchard
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Youre more likely to act yourself into feeling
than feel yourself into action.
Jerome Bruner, Harvard Psychologist