University Physical Activity Promotion and Evaluation Project Report

This report details a project aimed at promoting physical activity among fathers, focusing on achieving 150-300 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise weekly. The project's aims are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based (SMART). It outlines participant recruitment strategies, including seminars and online platforms, and proposes interventions such as fitness bands, mobile applications, and community events to encourage physical activity. The report links these interventions to behavior change theories like the theory of planned behavior, self-determination theory, and goal theory to enhance motivation and commitment. The project emphasizes the importance of changing perceptions of physical activity and incorporating it into daily routines, with the goal of reducing fat percentage and improving overall health outcomes. The report also includes references to support the project's strategies.

Running head: PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROMOTION AND EVALUATION
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROMOTION AND EVALUATION
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Response to Part 3: Aims of your project
The aims of the project are as follows:
 S-Specific-
What? The main goal of the project is to accomplish 150-300 minutes of physical
activities for fathers at a medium intensity. Another option is to facilitate around 75-150
minutes of intense physical training for middle aged fathers of age between 25 to 44
years.
How? The physical activities will be facilitated by practicing regular walking of 10
kilometres at least for the purpose of burning 1250 calories every week. The walk for grocery
shopping can be considered as the physical activity. Another way which can engage fathers in
physical activities is to involve them in the activities of children which will enable exercising
of at least three times a week. The day-to-day practices like taking children to the
playgrounds, recreational parks, helping students with school activities will help the fathers to
accomplish the daily necessity of physical activities and will ensure a positive bond with the
children.
 M- Measurable
The accomplished goal will result in a reduced fat percentage of about 20 percent in middle
aged fathers. The decreased weight can be determined by the number of steps taken by the
fathers. HR managers in the offices can encourage the employee to take stairs while
commuting in the office building. The results will also be reflected by the decreased
cholesterol rates.
 A- Attainable

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The goal of physical fitness of fathers will be accomplished with the regular habit of
incorporating walking and day-to-day practices. Fathers can achieve the goal by adopting
simple measures in their daily activities.
 R- Realistic
1. The minimum requirement of physical activities for the adults is around 150-300
minutes of physical activities for reducing the fat. By incorporating the simple
measure in the list of activities the rate of fathers meeting the target is 2 percent
(McGowan, Powell and French 2019).
 T- Time-Based
The results will be reflected by exercising for a period of six months.
Response to Part 4: Overview of the project
It has been observed that adults perceive physical activities as burden or punishment in spite
of a beneficial step. The intervention or project will be organized for changing the perception
of physical activities for adults.
4A- Participant recruitment details
The participant information:
Where-
1. The fathers can be engaged in the perception change intervention conducted in the
school by conducting a seminar for the student’s fathers.
2. The project can also be carried out in the workplace by encouraging the employees to
take stairs instead of lift while commuting in the office buildings.
3. The project can be carried out in the online platform, which will increase the reach
and effectiveness.

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When-
1. The intervention project can be conducted after the school as it will allow the fathers
to participate in the activities with their children, which will result in the creation of
positive bond with the children and change the perspective of considering physical
activities as a burden or punishment (Garriguet, Tremblay and Colley 2015).
2. The project can be conducted during the office hours as well as after the office hours.
3. It can be conducted and/or communicated anytime.
What-
1. The intervention project will be facilitated by distributing questionnaires to the fathers
for enabling the purpose of high involvement (Hunter et al. 2018).
2. The project will be carried out by first understanding the requirement and perception
of the employees and then implementing the activities as a fun activity after the office
which can target improved health as well as will help in building employer-employee
relationship (Foster et al. 2015).
3. It will be in a form of advertisement for changing the perception about physical
activities for fathers (Maher et al. 2015).
4B- Program or Intervention details
2. Fitness bands: It can be used as the monitor for tracking the influences of the physical
activities. The band will be functioning through an application in the phone, the steps,
physical activities and heart rate in your daily activities. The notifications of the
fitness band will change with the change in velocity and distance. The intense and
moderate pace of the user will be depicted by the band. It will also help in estimating
the body fat of user with the changes through daily or weekly physical activities. It
will vibrate if a person is hitting the daily/weekly goal and will vibrate if an individual
is not completing the set goal (McGowan, Powell and French 2019).

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3. APP- The adults can be offered an app and/or handbook for educating them with the
need and importance of physical activities. The app and handbook will also consist of
then list of activities which can be incorporated in the adult’s daily routine. It will
present tips for nutritional benefits and for vitamin deficiency. It will provide health
tips in general. The tips will constitute the short duration home workouts. The goals
recommended for the individuals according to their physical capacity and weight
(Floegel et al. 2015). It will also comprise of motivational quotes for encouraging
planned behaviours. It will incorporate fun and interesting challenges which will help
in changing the behaviour of adults towards physical activities. Like run 3 kilometres,
swim for at least 30 minutes, drink water and go for a walk. They will be getting
points and prizes with the completion of each recommended challenge or activity. The
prizes can be redeemed for tax rebates and various gift vouchers, as it will encourage
the adults for physical activities (Smith 2017).
4. Events- Events like walkathon and marathon can be organized for adults with their
companions.
4C- Program or intervention linked to relevant behaviour
 The linkage can be web-based project with the theory of a specific planned
behavioural approach and the incorporation of fun theories. The theory of planned
behaviour in sports psychology depicts that attitude, intention, perceived behaviour
and subjective norm.
 Self-determination theory- It deals with personality development and enhancement of
motivation which concerns the inherent growth of individual’s tendencies as well as
their psychological needs (Warner and French 2018). The tools and strategies for
physical activities can work towards motivating or enhancing the factors of self-

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determination, as it will help with the regularity and commitment towards the physical
activities.
 Goal theory- It deals with the research about the psychological factors which leads to
motivation (Foster et al., 2015). The functionality of the goal theory contributes
towards emphasizing the requirements and needs for establishing the aims and goal as
the intrinsic motivation factors. For implementing the program effectively, the link
between level of performance, efforts involved in the performance and goal difficulty
needs to be valued. The adults will be motivated for being committed to the
intervention or program as it will result in the positive relationship for the connection.
The adults will be encouraged for accepting the goals and committing to the program
by understanding the feedback and goal difficulty.

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Hunter, J.R., Gordon, B.A., Bird, S.R. and Benson, A.C., 2018. Perceived barriers and
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Maher, C., Ferguson, M., Vandelanotte, C., Plotnikoff, R., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Thomas, S.,
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Warner, L.M. and French, D.P., 2018. Self-efficacy and its sources as determinants of
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