1. Agency Fitness Programs
Lacy Wolff, MS, CHFS
Instructor, Fitness and Wellness Unit

2. Moving Upstream
Health Promotion Story

3. Course Objectives Discuss Barriers to Exercise
Understand Benefits of Regular Exercise
Basics of Building a Physical Fitness Wellness Program
Understand the Medical Screening Process for Agency Fitness Program
Elements Essential for success of Agency Fitness Program

4. If there were a pill that could…
Lower Blood Pressure
Reduce LDL and Total Cholesterol
Reduce Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Reduce Stress and Improve Mood
Look better, feel better!
Improve Sleep Quality
Promote Weight Loss or Maintenance of Healthy Weight
Increase Energy Levels

5. Quality of Life

6. If we know all of this, then why....

7. Barriers to Exercise

8. Benefits of Employee Fitness Programs
Increased Productivity
Increased Employer Recruitment Potential
Improved Morale
Greater Ability to Cope with Stress
Reduced Illness
Reduced Absenteeism
Reduced Accidents
Lower Health Insurance Premiums
Reduced Turnover

9. Building a Program
Assess
Plan
Implement
Evaluate

10. Assess Demographics Health Risks Use of Services Current Practices
Individual Needs
Demographics
Health Risks
Use of Services
Organizational
Current Practices
Environment
Infrastructure
Community Resources
Food
Parks
Recreation Opportunities

11. Plan Establish Communication and Informatics Dedicate Resources
Obtain Leadership Support
Management
Establish Working Group
Establish Fitness Coordinator
Workplace Health Improvement Plan
Goals
Strategies/Programs
Dedicate Resources
Costs
Partners
Vendors
Establish Communication and Informatics
Marketing
Message Systems

12. Implement Programs Policies Health Benefits Environmental Support
Education
Fitness Classes
Policies
Organizational Rules
Health Benefits
Incentives
Environmental Support
Access
Opportunity
Physical/Social Well Being

13. Evaluate Organizational Change “Culture of Health”
Productivity
Absenteeism
Healthcare Costs
Improved Health Outcomes
Reduced disease and disability
Organizational Change “Culture of Health”
Morale
Recruitment

14. Program Design

15. Medical Screening We screen to: 1)Ensure safety of personnel.
2)Avoid practices that may result in liability.
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16. Program Format
Voluntary
Mandatory

17. Types of Physical Fitness Tests
Physical Task Tests-Physical Assessment relating to actual job tasks that must be performed by employee
Age-Gender Standardized Fitness Test Uses established normative tables to assess fitness levels in various components of fitness
Absolute Standard Fitness Test-everyone must score to the standard regardless of age and gender
Leads to adverse and disparate impact cases (due to aging process and female gender issues)
Depends on the purpose of the test Physical Task Tests are not consistent with job duties and have increased injury rates in DPS. (Lt. Davis will cover further) 2 flights of stairs, body 60 feet, serpentine, jump over fence
Agencies that want an employment standard as a fitness program goal adopt task related tests. Agencies that have a goal of improving overall fitness select tests with gender/age dependent standards. Both may be administers. Only 2 agencies that use Absolute Standard Fitness Tests (FBI and Fitness Intervention Technologies/FIT Force- they build physical task tests and absolute standard tests)

18. Effective Programs Include:
Convenient Facilities and Services
Feedback to Participants
Safe and Effective Activities
Evidence Based Education
Promote Behavior Change
Incentives

19. Review Top Barriers to Exercise? Benefits of Regular Exercise?
Basics of Building a Worksite Health Promotion Program- What are the 4 Steps?
Medical Screening Process for Agency Fitness Program?
6 Elements Essential for success of Agency Fitness Program?

20. References
Americans With Disabilities Act Handbook. Title I, Equal employment opportunity for individuals with disabilities. Washington, DC: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of Justice; 1992.
Armstrong LE, Brubaker PH, Whaley MH, & Otto RM (Eds.). American college of sports medicine: Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription. 7th Ed. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006.
Cooper Clinic. Master fitness specialist course. Dallas, TX: Cooper Institute; 2003.
Howley ET & Franks BD. Health fitness instructor’s handbook. 4th ed. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics; 2003.
Center for Disease Control: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion | Division of Population Health Workplace Health Model; 2014.