energising lives: physical literacy in perspective through the lifespan len almond
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Energising Lives: Physical Literacy in Perspective through the Lifespan Len Almond BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and Health May 19 th 2008. Three Questions about Physical Literacy. What is Physical Literacy What relevance does it have to? Individual lives - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Energising Lives:
Physical Literacy in Perspective through the
Lifespan
Len Almond
BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and Health
May 19th 2008
Three Questions about Physical Literacy
• What is Physical Literacy• What relevance does it have to?
• Individual lives• Teachers and the PE Curriculum• Movement specialists’ perspectives on their role
• How do we promote it?• What messages do we project?• Pedagogy
• The art and science of reaching people• The art and science of engagement
Tasks for Today
• Part 1 Why do people avoid physical activity?
• Part 2 A Positive Perspective
• Part 3 Practical Illustrations
• Part 4 Pedagogy
• Finally Return to my three questions
Participation Levels
• 35% of men
• 24% of womenAchieve 5 x 30 minutes of
moderate activity each week
70% inactiveHealth Survey for England
2004
UNDERSTANDING
• ONLY 10% of general
public and 16% of professionals understand the public health and well-being message for physical activity
No Time or Low Priority?
Public Health Message
• Adults: 2% of your day
• Overweight/Obese older adults 4% day of your
• Most adults spend 19.3% of their day in front of a screen – adults in third age much longer
Activity at Weekends
All data - Mean steps per day recorded over a 4 week period (n = 277)
5000
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9000
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11000
Mon Wed Fri Sun Tues Thurs Sat Mon Wed Fri Sun Tues Thurs Sat
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However
• 62% of people reported that they would not be motivated to exercise even if their life depended on it
BHF YOUGOV survey September 2007
Personal Responsibility: A Myth?
What are the implications in the rise of:
• Personal Trainers
• Health Trainers
• Life Coaches
• Mentors
• What has happened to Expert Patients?
Promoting Physical Activity : enabling a person to flourish
Well-being Resource• Have more energy, dynamism, vitality, and
resourcefulness
Enrichment: enriching lives• Widen perspectives• Extend capabilities• Enhance quality of living
Reserve• Recover more quickly from major illness, stress,
hospital treatment
This is an Educational role for Physical Literacy through the
Lifespan
• Cultivate
• Nurture
• Cherish
• NOT Squander
So that people:
• Understand• Appreciate• Value
Consequences of Not Valuing Physical Literacy: Older Adults
• Sarcopenia
• Inactivity Impairment
• Loss of independence
• Closed Horizons
• Poor quality of living
Percentage of Older Adults who are inactive. HSE 2004
Men Women
55-64 years 68 80
65-74 years 82 86
75+ 92 96
Inactivity –the consequencesProportion of women aged 70+ able to walk for different periods of time and lengths of walk,
0
20
40
60
80
100
70-7470-74AgAg
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75-7975-79 80+80+ 70-7470-74 75-7975-79 80+80+
11//4 4 of a mile or of a mile or moremore
30+ 30+ minmin15,<30 15,<30 minmin5,<15 5,<15 minmin<5 min<5 min
active, strength-trained sedentary
(Adapted from Sipilä & SuominenMuscle Nerve 1993;16:294)
The same difference in muscle size is
seen between a 30 and an 80 yr old
70 yr old females
Moving More OftenComponents:Games People Play
Walk with Me
Out and About
Just Me
Dance with Me
Chair Chi
Wii
Gardening
Care Homes Olympiads
Consequences of Not Valuing Physical Literacy: Early years
• Sedentary Children
• Inactivity impairment
• Major increase in fat between 3 and 7 (adiposity rebound)
• Narrow perspective on children’s movement education (lack of energetic activity and skilful)
• Closed Horizons
Physical Development:Foundation Curriculum
• Move with confidence, imagination and in safety.• Move with control and co-ordination• Travel around, under, over and through balancing and
climbing equipment• Show awareness of space, of themselves and of others• Recognise the importance of keeping healthy, and
those things which contribute to this• Recognise the changes that happen to their bodies
when they are active• Use a range of small and large equipment
To raise Participation levels teachers need to:
• Reach out and connect with young people particularly those who are sedentary and underserved.
• Engage them productively, enthusiastically and in a caring environment.
• Draw Out keep them interested and wanting more.
• Stretch extend them• Generate a longer term commitment to
sport, dance and any form of physical activity.
Well-being as Enablements/Capabilities
1. What a person has
2. What they can do with what they have
3. How they think about what they have and can do
This is an Educational role for Physical Literacy
• Cultivate
• Nurture
• Cherish
• NOT Squander
So that people:
• Understand• Appreciate• Value
Three Questions about Physical Literacy
• What is Physical Literacy: need for an alternative model• What relevance does it have to?
• Individual lives Language• Teachers and the PE Curriculum Language and Focus• Movement specialists’ perspectives on their role Language and
Focus
• How do we promote it?• What messages do we project? Needs to rethought• Pedagogy
• The art and science of reaching people• The art and science of engagement
Physical Literacy Critique
• Language• Assumes a rounded model of physical literacy which is
missing in exercise implementation• Focus on movement competence• Missing ingredients
• Physical Literacy as Therapy• Energy systems• Neuro-science insights
Physical Literacy has three characteristics:
• A Love of being physically active• The physical competence, motivation, confidence and
understanding to:• perform a range of physical tasks necessary for everyday
living• appreciate and value being physically active on a regular basis
• Maintain this commitment at an individually appropriate level throughout life.
It has the power to:
• Energise lives• Enrich lives and enhance the quality of everyday living• Be a therapeutic tool• Treatment and managements of specific medical
conditions• Restoring functional capacity to an optimal level• Healing (not in a religious connotation)• Personal growth
It implies Personal Responsibility for one’s well-being.
Contact:
Len AlmondFoundation DirectorBHF National Centre for Physical
Activity and HealthWebsite: www.bhfactive.org.ukTel: 01509 611473 Email:[email protected]