Activities
Discuss your personal self-assessment findings. Include the following:
1: perceived barriers to achieving the national recommended goals for physical activity as well as 2:
2: strategies for maintenance of already achieved goals or for future achievement of yet to be reached goals and
3: responses to self-reflection questions in module description above.
4: Reflect on a physical activity you have always wished to engage in but have never have.
5: What creative strategies can you implement to remove the barriers so that you can now do so?
Your initial posting should be at least 400 words
Additional Resources:
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2015).
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Physical Activity Index
. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2015).
Physical activity and health: A Report of the Surgeon General
. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
· Healthy People 2020. (2015).
Physical activity overview
. U.S Department of Health & Human Services.
· National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIH). (2013).
How much physical activity should your family get?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
· U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2015).
Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s call to action to promote walking and walkable communities
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