Combating Inactivity – getting people, processes and practices outside the box

1. Combating Inactivity – getting people, processes and practices outside the box Mark Tremblay, Ph.D., D.Litt. (hons), FACSM, CSEP-CEP Director, Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute Chief Scientific Officer, Active Healthy Kids Canada Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa

2. 2012 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth

3. Physical Activity Levels 2012 Grade F Physical Activity Levels Only 7% of children and youth are meeting Canada’s guidelines of 60 minutes of physical activity a day 46% of Canadian children and youth are getting a mere 3 hours or less of active play each week (including weekend days) Kids are spending 63% of their free time after school and on weekends being sedentary 92% of Canadian kids said, if given the choice, they would choose to play with friends over watching TV The proportion of Canadian kids who play outside after school dropped 14% over the last decade At lunch and after school, kids are getting only 24 minutes of moderate- to vigorous- intensity physical activity out of a possible 4 hours.

4. Percentage of Canadian Children Overweight or Obese2009-2011 Canadian Health Measures Survey % Roberts et al. Health Reports, 2012

5. Portrait of a typical Canadian 12 year old Canadian children today are taller, heavier, fatter, rounder, weaker and less flexible than in 1981. These results forecast accelerated non-communicable disease development, increased health care costs, and loss of future productivity.

6. Designed to Move: A Physical Activity Action Agenda. 2012

7. Designed to Move: A Physical Activity Action Agenda. 2012

10. Measurement as an intervention Standing desks HAL homework • QDPE • Intramurals • Cost subsidies • New equipment • Special events Micro-interventions Standing ovations Active meetings/classes Anti-sedentarism Student advocacy Activity breaks

11. Brain-storming Session • format – 2-3 minutes to think alone, 4-5 min to discuss as a table/group, 5-10 min to report back and discuss as a group • Topics • Transportation • Before / after school • During classes • Recess breaks • School policy

12. Mark’s Top 10 • Don’t duplicate – initiate • Make the healthy choice the easy choice • Get outside and play • Don’t just sit there • Sweat the small stuff • Add a touch of Amish • Wired but disconnected • Don’t expect, inspect • Let’s make some noise! • The arrows go both ways

13. Designed to Move: A Physical Activity Action Agenda. 2012

14. Designed to Move: A Physical Activity Action Agenda. 2012

15. normalize healthy active living in the school challenge the status quodo not succumb to litigation fearsresist “we can’t”think outside the box