Activities

Discuss your personal self-assessment findings. Include the following:

1: perceived barriers to achieving the national recommended goals for physical activity as well as 2:

2: strategies for maintenance of already achieved goals or for future achievement of yet to be reached goals and

3: responses to self-reflection questions in module description above.

4: Reflect on a physical activity you have always wished to engage in but have never have.

5: What creative strategies can you implement to remove the barriers so that you can now do so?

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words

Additional Resources:

· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2015).  Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Physical Activity Index . U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2015).  Physical activity and health: A Report of the Surgeon General . U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

· Healthy People 2020. (2015).  Physical activity overview . U.S Department of Health & Human Services. 

· National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIH). (2013).  How much physical activity should your family get?  U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

· U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2015).  Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s call to action to promote walking and walkable communities . Washington, DC.