Community Impacts on Physical Activity
Research Team

Stay Motivated! We are halfway through the program and you are doing great so far! Sometimes we can lose motivation to stay active, but this is a great time to remember why we started the program and find new ways to motivate your child. Sometimes it can help to think about reasons why we would do something, since this can motivate us and help us remember why it is important to us. For example, some things that are important to people are family, friends, fun, responsibility,

Achieving Your Goals! In the last newsletter we talked about how to set good, healthy goals for you and your child and how to track those goals. How is tracking those goals going? Did you find a method that works for you and your child (on an app or using a paper version?). Sometimes it can be challenging to meet goals and change health behaviors. To help support you while you help your child change behaviors and meet goals, we want to provide you with extra tools to help avo

Goal setting At this point in the program, we hope you are feeling motivated to become/stay physically active! This week let’s talk about goal setting, which can help your child translate that motivation into action. The key to goal setting is to have SMART goals. Specific. A good goal needs to be clearly defined so you know when it has been met. For example, a non-specific goal might be “I want to me more physically activity”, whereas a specific goal would be “I want to exer

What is physical activity? The Stay Active program was developed to help your family be physically active – even during a pandemic. This week we will talk more on what physical activity is, what the national recommendations are, and how to track your child’s activity! What exactly is ‘physical activity?’ Physical activity is any movement of the body that uses energy. Typically, when we talk about physical activity, we’re talking about movements that at least make singing hard