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PHYSICAL LITERACY. FACEBOOK CHLDREN. In one generation we have eradicated a human behaviour. World Bank (April 2012). PHYSICAL LITERACY. FACEBOOK PARENTS. What percentage of people are active enough?. What % of Adult Canadians get 30 minutes of moderate PA most days?. Guide line.
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What % of Adult Canadians get 30 minutes of moderate PA most days? Guide line Percentage Days a week
Overweight and Obese Adult Canadians 65% Percentage
Committing armchair suicide Broadcast Date: May 2, 2012 Increased postwar affluence means the nation eats more and walks less. These days, Canadians with bulging bellies are more likely to opt for a ride in the VW Chevyinstead. Passive recreation like screen time TV-watching is also a problem. A fitness expert in this 20121968television report says people are committing "armchair suicide." A man 33-pounds overweight is three times as likely to die suddenly of a heart attack. As a result, men begin lifting weights at the gym and housewives bounce along to web and DVD TVexercise programs. Committing armchair suicide Broadcast Date: July 16, 1968 Increased postwar affluence means the nation eats more and walks less. These days, Canadians with bulging bellies are more likely to opt for a ride in the Chevy instead. Passive recreation like TV-watching is also a problem. A fitness expert in this 1968 television report says people are committing "armchair suicide." A man 33-pounds overweight is three times as likely to die suddenly of a heart attack. As a result, men begin lifting weights at the gym and housewives bounce along to TV exercise programs. Fool me once … fool me twice …. Fool me 44 years in a row!!!
Osteoporosis Cancer Diabetes Depression Osteoarthritis
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even abovethat of restoring it when impaired Hippocrates
Literacy • Literacy is defined as the ability to ‘acquire the essential knowledge and skills that enableindividuals to actively participatein all the activities for which reading and writing are needed’. UNESCO 2006 • “Literacy is crucial to the acquisition, by every child, youth, and adult of essential life skills (which) is an indispensible means for effective participation in the societies and economies of the twenty first century.” United Nations 2002 • You can simply replace the word literacy with physical literacy.
Aligning PL with Literacy • Movement Vocabulary • An individuals repertoire of movement skills (or sequence of skills) • Movement Fluency • The ability to execute a component of movement vocabulary with expertise. • Physical Proficiency • The ability to select and proficiently execute movement vocabulary suitable to an environment. • Physical Literacy • Physical literacy is the ability to demonstrate physical proficiencies in multiple environments.
PLAY FUN • PLAY SELF • PLAY SIMPLE COACH • PLAY SIMPLE PARENT • LTPI
Physical Literacy Across the Lifespan and Sectors • Sport • Fundamental movement skills – terrestrial, sport based • Vocational • Firefighter, armed services, dry waller, iron worker, underwater welder • Daily Life • Ability and Injury Prevention • Lift, carry, transfer, lower – back injury and ability • Falls, stumble recovery, landing – fracture and ability • ACL: Female to Male ratio is 6:1, physical literacy related? Don’t limit it to sport. Physical literacy is a critical part of being a human being. Period.
A person that is physically literate will “move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person” PHE Canada
Movement skills Participation Activity Fitness
Do we mean what we say? PL & Environments • Land • Indoor • Outdoor • Water • On top • In • Under • Ice • Snow • Air Non-human transport • Animals • Mechanical
World PHYSICAL Literacy Rates – is it the inverse of literacy? In developed countries Lifestyles are an expression of the attitudes and beliefs of a society.
BORN TO MOVE • Better brain • Better muscle • Better bone • Better heart • Better body • Better social life • Low burden on health care and society
Heath System Heath Care System • Lack of Disability ≠ Equal Ability
Bounds of An Ability Model Body Structure Impairment Optimal Body Function Impairment Optimal Physical Literacy IlliterateLiterate Activity Limitation Unlimited Performance Poor Optimal Capacity Low High Performance < capacity = barrier Nutrition Malnutrition Optimal Participation Restriction Unrestricted Drives Participation
Participation Health
Towards An Ability Model Existing Curricular Frameworks for Ability Progression School Recreation Sport
Physical Literacy Progression & Extinction Proficiency Competence Grade PLAYFUNDAMENTALS, 25 skill assessment, n>60 per category, N=512
Skill Assessment • Criterion Based • Deficiency based – itemized – ceiling effect • Model based • Proficiency based - subjective - trained Disability Ability
Deficit Tools Ability Tools • Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD-2) • Bruininsk-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP) • Movement Assessment Battery for Children (M-ABC) • Functional Movement Skills (FMS) We do not identify ability by the lack of deficit!
Why children don’t participate. Is competence the gate keeper? Skill Judgment N=123, Grade 6, audience response system
PL and Active Participation PLAYFUNDAMENTALS, n=39, Grade 6
Physical Literacy and Running Performance Slower Running performance was inversely related to PL. (r=-0.44, p<0.01) Sprint time Faster Physical Literacy High Low
Know what physical literacy is. It is an essential construct for making change. Let Pinocchio do what he really wants to do. Everyone please assign “Physical Literacy Homework”.
… but we are not yet enlightened. We are knowledgeable …
Despite our best intentions we have failed our children. We will kill them slowly, but won’t hurt them quickly.
Physical literacy and health The Story of Pinocchio Singers: He can walk and talk and fly. Pinocchio: Do anything I try. Singers: He can dance, sing a tune, play a flute. Pinocchio: Do anything I try. Singers: But never never … move
PA Dysfunction Index • Self-Reported Physical Activity • The majority report meeting the physical activity guidelines (52.5%) • Actual Physical Activity • 4.8% get 30 min a day for 5 to 7 days per week. • 15.4% get 150 minutes per week • 34.% get over 10,000 steps/day • Dysfunction Index • Self-report/Actual • 52.5/4.8 = 10.9X • We only over-estimate our activity level by 10,900 %.
PA Adherence Grade 6 52.2% accumulated <30.0 min, 31.1% accumulated 30.0 to 59.9 min, 12.7% accumulated 60.0 to 89.9 min 4.0% accumulated ≥90.0 min. (Wittmeier, Mollard and Kriellaars, 2007)
Kruger Report 2010 Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba • Physical inactivity combined with obesity and smoking cost Manitobans $1.62 billion in 2008; the economic burden will ↑ by $4.7 billion by 2026. NOTE: Estimated from self-report data which is 6 to 14X over-estimate (age dependent).
“In a very real and immediate sense, our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our national security … such softness on the part of the individual citizen can help to strip and destroy the vitality of a nation” (John F. Kennedy, 1960, Sports Illustrated)
14,000.0 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 12,000.0 10,000.0 8,000.0 6,000.0 4,000.0 2,000.0 10,982.3 11,480.9 11,462.8 11,326.8 8,416.0 7,883.4 - Day of Week 15,000 Steps/day target Weekday Weekend Steps/day Sun Sat |Fri Thuir Wed Tues - 7000 steps - 4000 steps Physical Activity of Children – Weekend Parental Control.