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Lift Off! 10-Minute Physical Activity Breaks
Stay active every day with Physical Activity (PA) breaks at work.
Create a healthier lifestyle and reduce chronic disease with these 10-Minute
Physical Activity Breaks.
There is growing evidence to support the feasibility and efficacy of
integrating brief bouts of structured exercise into daily organizational
routine. We hope that you will identify opportunities in your workplace
and other organizations with which you're affiliated to integrate these
breaks into daily routines.
We invite you to
access and share the following Lift Off! related materials:
- Lift Off! Overview - view
- Lift Off! Leader Trainings - view
- Leader Training Agenda - view
- Evidence of success - view
- Physical Activity Log - view
- Common Barriers to Physical Activity and Tips - view
- Benefits and Basics of Physical Activity - view
- Chronic Disease and Physical Activity - view
- Abstract for REACH US Center of Excellence in the Elimination of
Health Disparities: Community Action to Address Chronic Disease
Disparities - view
- Newspaper Article: "All It Takes is 10" - view
- CA5aday Report: "Fruits and Vegetables and Physical Activity
at the Worksite" - view
- CDC Best Practices
Report - view
- Preventive
Medicine - Special Issue: Forum on Physical Activity Research and
Funding - Prioritizing Physical Activity Promotion: A Public Health
Imperative - view
- Instant Recess User Guide - view
- FriarFit Photo
Guide - view
- SPARKing Motion
Photo Guide - view
- Tutti
Fruitti Photo Guide - view
- Article:
The Meta-Volition Model: Organizational Leadership Is the Key Ingredient
in Getting Society Moving, Literally! - view
- Article: "Live,
Learn and Play" Building Strategic Alliances Between Professional
Sports and Public Health - view
The California Endowment
Activity Matters for Kids Policy Briefs:
Physical
Education Matters - January, 2007
Failing
Fitness: Physical Activity and Physical Education in Schools - January, 2007
Links to complete articles
in the growing evidence base:
Building Capacity to Prevent and Control Chronic Disease
in Underserved Communities: Expanding the Wisdom of WISEWOMAN in Intervening
at the Environmental Level.
Yancey. JOURNAL OF
WOMEN’S HEALTH, 13(5), 2004.
Ethnic and Sex
Variations in Overweight Selfperception:
Relationship to Sedentariness.
Yancey,Simon,McCarthy,Lightstone, and
Fielding. Obesity14(6), 2006.
Leading by Example: A Local Health Department -
Community Collaboration to Encorporate Physical
Activity into Organizational Practice.
Yancey, Lewis,
Sloane, Jones Guinyard, Diamant, Nacimento,McCarthy. J Public Health Management and
Practice 10(2), 2004, 116-123.
The Los Angeles Lift Off: a sociocultural
environmental change intervention to integrate physical activity into the
workplace.
Yancey, McCarthy, Taylor, Merlo, Gewa, Weber and
Fielding, Preventive Medicine 38, 2004 848– 856.
Putting
Promotion Into Practice: The African Americans Building a Legacy of Health
Organizational Wellness Program.
Yancey, Lewis, Jones Guinyard, Sloane, Miller Nascimento,
Galloway-Gilliam, Diamant, McCarthy Health Promotion Practice 7(3), 2006.
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