Software Equipment to help Promote Fitness and Nutrition

Software & Equipment to help Promote Fitness and Nutrition to High School Students Casey Grasso MW 9: 25

Web-Based Fitness Gram Purpose: to promote habitual physical activity among youth Allows students to learn activities to do in order to keep a healthy physical life. Activities can be continued throughout their lifetime. Multiple, diverse activities to desire INDIVIDUAL needs.

• Cost • $599 per school building with insurance • $100 per school building with an additional $50/month for insurance • Where to buy? • From K-12 sales rep. • Book and CD alone can be bought online. • Use/Value • View the student’s progress and capability with each fitness activity. • Web-based- faculty and parents can view and edit progress from multiple computers.

My Fitness Pal Purpose: a mobile app to make weight loss easy. A simple way to keep track of calories consumed each day. A food diary/journal - used mobile or on the computer. Students use this app while eating on school grounds to keep accurate information.

• Cost • FREE • Where to buy? • My Fitness Pal can be used for free on a smart phone or on the computer at www. myfitnesspal. com • Use/Value • Allows students to keep track of caloric intake per day • Keep track of vitamin, mineral, and other nutritional facts. • Can scan food barcodes for easy calculations. • Proven to help with weight loss

Heart Rate Monitor Purpose: to ensure training at an appropriate intensity Nudges you up to the right intensity like a coach. Training to get faster: Train with higher rates to build speed Training to go further: Train with lower heart rates to develop endurance

• Cost • Range from $30 -$400 based on quality and brand • Where to buy? • Sporting Goods Stores • Online Shopping Sites • Use/Value • Prevent Over-Training • Prevent Under-Training • Accuracy • Monitor Fitness • Pacing Workouts • Students monitor physical activity during class to ensure they are getting a good workout each class.

Body Fat Scale Purpose: to measure body fat much like a regular scale. Frustration can occur when the number on the scale doesn’t budge. Body fat scales can prove weight is same, but body fat lowers. Electric waves run through, measuring resistance

• Cost • Range from $30 -$100 based on quality and brand • Where to buy? • Convenient stores • Online Shopping Sites • Use/Value • Measure body fat rather than weight • Shows fat to muscle progress • Helps motivate users

Insanity Purpose: use the Insanity program for after school exercise classes Insanity is a 60 day program that can increase weight loss Increases endurance and muscles MAX interval training without weights or other workout equipment

• Cost • 3 payments of 39. 95 + 24. 95 S&H • Where to buy? • http: //www. beachbody. com/product/fitness_pr ograms/insanity. do • OR • Cheaper on Craigslist, EBay, Amazon • Use/Value • Challenges between aerobic and anaerobic intervals • Users go at own pace • Burn up to 1, 000 calories each workout • 60 Day Workout Program • 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed