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Striving to keep people of all ages excited about physical activity is one of AAHPERD’s main goals for 2006. What better way to fulfill this goal than to organize an exciting record breaking event at the World’s Fair for Kids in Orlando, Florida? On April 17, 2006, 3,000 people will gather together with AAHPERD to jump rope for three minutes to break the current standing world record for the largest number of people to jump rope simultaneously. It’s not too late to reserve your place in history—for more information and to register for the event, visit www.aahperd.org or www.wfkids.com. Closer to home, AAHPERD headquarters recently began their second annual cross-country competition—this year’s destination, Salt Lake City, Utah, home of the 2006 National Convention. On January 1, eight teams began the trek “on foot.” Teammates wear pedometers daily and keep a log of weekly miles, all in effort to be the first to reach the finish line in Salt Lake City. While employees enjoy the good-spirited rivalry of the race, all agree that they benefit most from the additional physical activity that the event encourages.
The American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation (AAPAR) is dedicated to enhancing quality of life by promoting active lifestyles across the lifespan with focus on community-based programs. We strive to deliver the most relevant, timely and cost effective programs, products and services that advance the competencies of our members so that they can make the maximum positive difference in the lives of people they serve.
Ongoing AAPAR workshops across the country include - Training and Encouraging Senior Activity (TESA), Adapted Aquatics and Aquatics Fitness Instructor Training, Adventure and Outdoor Education/Recreation Skills, Adapted Physical Education Training and more.
The ACA is a professional organization representing Doctors of Chiropractic. Its mission is to preserve, protect, improve and promote the chiropractic profession and the services of Doctors of Chiropractic for the benefit of patients they serve. The purpose of the ACA is to provide leadership in health care and a positive vision for the chiropractic profession and its natural approach to health and wellness.
The ACA will promote the PCPFS 50th Anniversary in our flagship publication, ACA News, which is sent to more than 60,000 chiropractic professionals nationwide. Upon approval, we will include information and a link from the ACA web site to PCPFS.
Furthermore, we would be happy to include the web site for the PCPFS on our patient education pages that promote physical fitness. (We are in the process of updating these pages, but to see a list of current topics, visit http://www.acatoday.com/insurance/wellness/ResPatients.shtml.)
The mission of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), the principal membership organization representing and promoting the profession of physical therapy, is to further the profession's role in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of movement dysfunctions and the enhancement of the physical health and functional abilities of members of the public.
The APTA has a long history of promoting the importance of health, wellness, and physical fitness for all individuals, especially those with existing or at risk for impairments, functional limitations or disability. In so doing, there are many opportunities to promote the goals we share with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports:
- Through our website, weekly member email blasts, component newsletters and other publications, continued education sessions and conferences, and locals and federal advocacy efforts, the APTA have easy access to internal and external stakeholders. Activities important to promoting physical activity and function can be easily communicated through these vehicles to a wide audience including physical therapists and their patients/clients.
- APTA is an active partner with many associations/organizations that promote physical fitness and health (e.g. National Blueprint, Falls Free Coalition, and the Special Olympics). These collaborations will foster the role and mission of the PCPFS
- APTA has initiated a special project entitled “Physical Fitness for Special Populations” whose mission is to increase awareness, provide resources and tools, and enhance a physical therapist’s ability to positively influence an individual's overall health, wellness, and fitness. This project has a dedicated area on the website to provide resources to physical therapists and their patients/clients to encourage community based physical fitness activities.
Arlington Cooperation Foundation's 3rd annual Potomac River Run Marathon and Half-Marathon on Sunday, May 7, at Belle Haven Park in Fairfax County, Virginia, was proud to be a Presidential Fitness Month Partner in 2005 - in fact, since the 2005 race started on May 1, at 7am it was the nation's first Presidential Fitness Month Partner in 2005. More than 300 participants will run from more than 20 states, and the event will benefit various charities (the 2005 edition raised $5400 for 7 charities). The pre-race College of Running on Saturday, May 6, in Alexandria, Virginia, is free to the public and offers a wide array of expert guest speakers on health, fitness, and nutrition. The race also celebrates World Laughter Day, coincidentally the first Sunday in May, by offering 26.2 miles of smiles.
In 2006, CircusFit - a national youth fitness program introduced by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® - will be actively involved in many communities across America. A CircusFit centric All Access Pre-show will get Ringling Bros.® audiences a movin’ and a groovin’ in every city The Greatest Show On Earth® visits. Ringling Bros. athletic performers will present CircusFit youth seminars around the U.S. In May, CircusFit will support National Sports and Physical Education Month in partnership with the National Association for Sports and Physical Education (NASPE). Throughout the year, CircusFit will partner with schools, youth groups and after-school programs to integrate CircusFit into their physical education and recreational activities. Phase II of www.CircusFit.com was launched providing educators, kids and parents with additional activities and information.
During 2006, Danville Public Schools in partnership with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, the Community Foundation of the Dan River Region, Danville Running and Fitness Club and Danville Parks and Recreation Department will provide physical activity for students and staff at all school sites (17). Each school site will be encouraged to offer a walking/running club, provide fitness challenges and to monitor food offerings through the school cafeteria.
Events include 9-week challenges and End-of-Year Fun Run celebration. Anglers Park will be the site of the 1-mile walk/run (Great Train Race) and quarter-mile walk/run (Caboose Run).
FF4K will continue to provide after-school fitness activities to Elementary & Middle School students throughout Virginia. Our FUN fitness activities include; functional fitness training, cardiovascular training and strength training. We plan to hold a “family fitness” event in late March and a Fun Run in April/May. FF4K plans to expand to even more schools in the 2006-2007 school year.
The Marine Corps Marathon is the fifth largest marathon in the US and eighth largest in the world. Open to all runners who are physically fit, the MCM welcomes runners from all 50 US States and more than 40 countries. The 31st Anniversary event will be held October 29, 2006 and serves to spotlight the organizational skills of the United States Marine Corps, promote health and fitness and generate community goodwill. Weekend Events include the Runners' Expo, a shorter distance race (TBA), the MCM Healthy Kids Fun Run, pasta parties, a post-race party and plenty of fitness-related activities for spectators.
The Medical Fitness Association (MFA), in conjunction with the MFA Education Committee, sponsors Medical Fitness Week annually. The goal of this MFA initiative is to promote an increase in physical activity levels in all ages and to highlight the medical fitness difference. The theme for 2006 is "Steppin' Out: 70,000 Steps in 7 Days". MFA facilities throughout the country will participate. All funds raised during the week will be donated to local charities or organizations dedicated to the fight against childhood obesity. Currently, medical fitness facilities provide health and wellness programs to over two million people nationwide. Contact the Medical Fitness Association, an Affiliate of the American Hospital Association, for more information: 804-327-0330, www.medicalfitness.org or email cwing@medicalfitness.org
Safety around the water is always foremost. Risk Awareness and Safety Training (RAST) offers training in emergency recognition and supplements national lifeguard training programs. RAST was developed in collaboration with the Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation Institute. RAST is for aquatic therapy and rehab practitioners, aquatic exercise instructors and arthritis instructors.
The popularity of yoga, Pilates, and tai chi land courses is now available in the warm water pool. Aqua Pi-Yo-Chi™ Life Enhancement System is all inclusive regardless of personal limitations. Benefits include increased strength, improved balance, and heightened energy. The program was developed by Dr. Wykle, and is available in Spanish by contacting Ana Oriani (aquatherpilates@aol.com).
National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) is one of four National Associations of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). The NAGWS mission is to develop and deliver equitable and quality sport opportunities for all girls and women through relevant research, advocacy, leadership development, educational strategies, and programming in a manner that promotes social justice and change.
Each year NAGWS plans and supports a variety of events and activities that focus on this mission including launch of two new national programs in which we will be able to encourage and promote physical activity: Backyards and Beyond, grassroots advocacy program for Title IX education, and an Online Student-Athlete Resource Center for Female Athletes.
Working with physical education teachers across this country, NASPE is committed to providing every child in America with a quality physical education program and for promoting quality sport and physical activity programs. Our monthly toolbox on our website is a perfect example of how we promote physical activity each day in creative and fun ways. One of the highlights for NASPE this year during National Physical Education and Sport Week (May 1-7) will be the release of the newest Shape of the Nation Report. For over 20 years NASPE has been compiling information about the state of physical education in this country. NASPE and Walk4Life, Inc. have also partnered to release the new “101 Tips for Family Fitness Fun” brochure which will be widely distributed across the country.
As a PCPFS partner, the National Dance Association (AAHPERD association) will promote dance for all ages and abilities. At the AAHPERD National Convention (April 25-29) in Salt Lake City, NDA offers 30 presentations to train dance educators and students, and supports a Gala highlighting dance groups at the K-12 through college/professional levels. Techniques - ballet, folk, modern, Pilates - are offered. Six AAHPERD district organizations include dance at their conventions. NDA is working with NASPE to train physical education teachers on how to teach dance. NDA will announce the PCPFS anniversary in its newsletter, encouraging members and students to dance.
Getting people excited about healthy living, exercise and wellness is the goal of No Sweat Fitness Express. NSFX will offer open community events to raise awareness of the importance of exercise and fitness. Our biggest is in encouraging the young people of the community to get up and get moving by sponsoring the local Boy’s and Girls’ Clubs in our Ameriwalk program and by inviting the community to join us in a virtual walk across the country. We are also hosting regular 3rd Thursday Health Seminars, weekly Saturday nutrition seminars, Free Friday Yoga and a 5-A-Day Challenge on healthy eating.
The Oakland Panthers Walking Milers Club takes a proactive role in combating the National Epidemic of Childhood Obesity.
Students walk before and after school to collect laps that are tabulated into miles
walked to make a life change to get moving. Children who are physically moving
have a better physical and mental well-being.
- We plan to invite parents to come to school one evening to get up and get moving. We would like to
call that evening, "Panthers and Parents Wellness for the World." Invite local papers, television,
and radio personalities to come and support our students.
- Invite Carroll County Wellness Center to come and present the amenities it has to offer to families.
- Set up stations with teacher and parent volunteers to just have parents and children walk, run and play
together.
- Try to get a "famous sports personality" to come and mingle with families to encourage them all
to make a life change.
PE Central (pecentral.org) will continue to encourage children to become physically active through the use of our online physical activity step recording programs Log It (peclogit.org) and Get Active Stay Active (getactivestayactive.com). Both programs have earned rave reviews. Participants in Log It recorded over 1.2 million miles of physical activity in 2005. PE Central’s successful physical activity skills program, the PE Central Challenge, will begin its eighth year with the goal of reaching over 200,000 children in 2006. Lastly, we will continue to grow our popular main PE Central Web site which will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2006.
The Potomac Rugby Foundation (PRF) will promote the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports' 50th Anniversary Partnership to Get America Moving by promoting the Fitness Challenge programs to the regional rugby leagues, including the Potomac Rugby Union (PRU), Eastern Penn Rugby Union (EPRU) and Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU). Our objective is to get the youth programs of these leagues to take on the President's Challenge Program as a league-wide, team and individual player activity in 2006. The PRF will assist in underwriting costs associated with all individuals from these organizations that initiate and work to complete the Fitness Challenge programs.
We dedicate our 29th annual indoor track meet series 8th annual youth track training program to PCPFS' 50th anniversary by presenting PCPFS information to all participants and by hosting PCPFS signage.
Potomac Valley Track Club's track meets are Sunday mornings, January 8, January 22, and February 5, at Thomas Jefferson Community Center in Arlington, Virginia. They provide opportunities for athletes of all ages from all over the DC area to compete in sprints and longer races. The meets are free for young athletes up to 8th grade, and they receive ribbons for participation no matter how they finish.
Potomac Valley Track Club's 8th annual youth track training program is held Sunday afternoons in October, November, and December at Thomas Jefferson Community Center. They attract more than 50 young athletes who learn to compete in running events, throws, jumps, and racewalks. Among the athletes who graduated from the program are sub-4:00 miler Michael Ryan, Princeton standout Peter Quenzio, and national 800m high school champion Andra Oaxaca.
The Research Consortium of AAHPERD is comprised of 5,500 research scholars and other members of AAHPERD’s National Associations with a strong interest in research. The mission of the Consortium is to contribute to and promote research in the disciplines of health, physical education, recreation, and dance (HPERD). To fulfill this mission, the Consortium conducts several programs including scholarly lectures, symposia and poster sessions; an annual research grant program; recognition of accomplished researchers in HPERD through the Fellow and other award programs; and publication of the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport journal and the Physical Activity Today newsletter. For more information, visit: www.aahperd.org/research.
In 2006, the Research Consortium of AAHPERD will include the PCPFS 50th anniversary logo and mention the anniversary (to include the PCPFS website) in one issue each of the Consortium’s Research Tracks electronic newsletter and Physical Activity Today quarterly periodical. Either the same or a separate issue of Research Tracks will also include a description of the PCPFS Research Digest, with a mention of the latest issue’s topic and a link to the on-line Research Digest archives.
Run2Far is a physical fitness and wellness coaching firm. Our mission is to instruct our clients how to maintain a fitness lifestyle.
We always encourage our clients and their families to get involved in a healthy lifestyle. We would be proud to work with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports as a 50th Anniversary Partner. Personally, Marie has been participating in the Presidential Champions program and is a recipient of 3 gold Presidential Champion medals. Run2Far congratulates the Council for fifty years of challenging Americans to be active, healthy and fit.
Run2Far is fully committed to helping families, and especially children. We offer free nutrition seminars, free group runs, laser tag outings, free aerobic classes, charity competitions and other activities for our clients and their families.
Mission of Winter Feels Good: Educatate the public about the health, fitness and social benefits of snow sports and to engage people in snow sports activities including snowshoeing, cross country skiing, alpine skiing and snowboarding.
Activites: Winter Feels Good works with the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to organize a President's Council Clinic on Winter Trails Day, the Winter Feels Good pavilion at the NBC 4 Health and Fitness Expo, snowshoe activites through the Fairfax County (VA) Snowshoe Pilot program, to encourage children and adults to participate in snow sports as a way to earn points toward a President's Challenge award, educate the snow sports industry about the value of the President's Challenge program, educate the public through the www.winterfeelsgood.com Web site about the importance of regular exercise all year long and including winter outdoor activites on snow.
Children’s Personal Conduct Character Building Education campaign is a national Campaign to promote character education among children between the ages of 4 ~ 12 through martial arts training. This program includes martial arts training in moral principles, standards, and etiquette - a traditional Martial Arts command system to provide children with mental capacity to make moral distinctions and practice proper conduct so they can protect themselves against potential involvement in gang related violence, drugs, alcohol, tobacco use and early sex. The value of this campaign lies in teaching our future leaders what is not taught in regular school classes and in providing parents with comprehensive instructional materials with which they also participate in the educational process. Basically, core objective of our campaign is healthier mind will lead to healthier body.
We promote international, noncompetitve walking for fitness, fun, and fellowship in Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, DC, through the 501(c)3 organization and execution of a single weekend walking festival called the US FreedomWalk Festival®. The event is co-hosted by the Reserve Officers Association of the United States; the Office of the Surgeon General of the United States; Arlington County, Virginia; and in 2006, by the Embassy of Japan. The organization promotes year-round walking for fitness at numerous local health fairs throughout the year.
In 2006 we will continue to promote walking at numerous health fairs, including, hopefully, the 2006 event at RFK Stadium. In April 2006 we will join a special organization of the best non-competitive fitness walking events in the world called the International Marching League Walking Association (www.internationalmarchingleague.org). This means that at our 5th annual event in 2006 on October 21, there will be fitness walkers from over 22 countries walking by the HHH Building where we would like to place a checkpoint. We will also promote fitness walking through our national sanctioning body of the American Volkssports Association (www.ava.org), an international member of the International Federation of Popular Sports (www.ivv.org).
Contact: Fran Anthony Meyer, Ph.D., CHES, Program Coordinator
E-mail: MeyerFA2@aol.com
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Through the Virginia Comprehensive Health Education Training and Resource Center (VCHETRC), Longwood University, an interagency planning team promotes physical activity, fitness, and quality physical education. During the 2006 four-day summer training, Health for Success in Virginia (HFS), three six-hour workshops are offered highlighting increased physical activity to improve the overall quality of life, prevent chronic disease, increase brain function and learning, and enhance production in the work force. During the two-year Virginia Coordinated School Health Leadership Institute (VCSHLI), school administrators and “up-and-coming” leaders learn the importance of a coordinated school health program approach for providing opportunities for physical activity in-school and outside-of-school.
Virginia Is For Education, Inc. brings its fitness trailer to any place where school-aged children congregate. 50-foot-long, its 30 stationary bikes can provide safe aerobic exercise to some 300 children in a normal five-hour school day. Its audio-video equipment provides for motivational and educational messages. It is experienced in bringing this service to state and local health Depts. children’s and teaching hospitals, public schools, camps, park Depts., churches, and 501 3c foundations.
For 2006, VIFE will continue these services, expand to additional services for the handicap, and outfit more trailers as needed.
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