Links

Many individual and community physical activity programs have been developed. The following resources provide free or low cost materials and guidebooks for personal use, and for worksite wellness and community programs.

• Be a Player, Get Up and Play an Hour a Day - Physical Activity Media form HealthierUS.gov
• The Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research
• Bicycle Federation – Pedestrian Issues
• Wellness Councils of America
• National Center on Physical Activity and Disability features NCPAD’s Research Citation Database, which contains references for journal articles, newsletters, book excerpts, and hyperlinks to websites as well as NCPAD’s Fact Sheets and Bibliographies on topics relating to specific activities and disabilities. NCPAD’s website also provides a national resource directories of facilities, programs, and events concerned with physical activity and disability.
• National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (NCPPA)
• National Association for Sport and Physical Education
• Choose To Move, is a fun, free and flexible physical activity program developed for women. It lasts 12 weeks and is designed to help participants gradually increase their physical activity levels to 30 minutes on most days of the week—a level shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. Please share with friends, family and clients that may have access to the internet.
• Community Preventive Services Recommendations regarding physical activity. The Guide to Community Preventive Services evaluates evidence on the effectiveness of population-based interventions that have been used in communities to increase physical activity. Each recommendation is based on the strength of the evidence of effectiveness found during systematic reviews. Decision makers should consider these evidence-based recommendations and local needs, goals, and constraints when choosing appropriate interventions.