KINESIOL 1C03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Exercise Prescription, Participaction, Goal Setting
15 Sep 2016
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Provide strategies to overcome negative attitudes towards pa. Getting people to motivate themselves; providing them the info but they have to motivate themselves to do something about it. Canadian physical activity guidelines: trying to provide you with info about benefits, info about how to be active, what to do, distributed to all canadians. Bodybreak: campaign initiated in the 80s; used to be associated with participaction, developing vids on tv to show people how to be more active and have a better diet etc. Effectiveness: 70% of people can recall info or slogans from mass media campaigns, effective at reaching a lot of populatoin. Going to a gym and getting a test done; exercise prescription: physical counseling. Go to a doctor to get exercise prescription. Exercise is medicine campaign / movement trying to advise doctors to prescribe exercise instead of just prescribing drugs; educate physicians to slow drug outflow and encourage exercise: community health and wellness fairs.
