Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is Fitness for Life?
A: Fitness for Life is a middle and high school program designed to help students acquire the self-management skills necessary to become active for a lifetime. It includes a student text and many teacher ancillaries.
Q: What are some of the self-management skills that people learn in Fitness for Life?
A: Examples of self-management skills are self-assessment, goal setting, self-monitoring, program planning, overcoming barriers, and managing time. Students learn 18 different self-management skills in the Fitness for Life program.
Q: What type of schedule is required for a Fitness for Life course?
A: A Fitness for Life course can be designed to fit into just about any schedule, including the basic plan, block plan, integrated plan, and accelerated block plan. Details on how Fitness for Life can be taught within these various plans can be found on the Fitness for Life Fifth Edition Lesson Plans CD-ROM.
Q: I'm using FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM. Does Fitness for Life support this assessment?
A: Yes, Fitness for Life provides students the information they need to take FITNESSGRAM test scores and use them to develop individualized activity plans. The FITNESSGRAM assessments are used throughout Fitness for Life. In addition, ACTIVITYGRAM is also introduced in Fitness for Life.
Q: How can I get training on how to teach the Fitness for Life course?
A: Physical Best, a program of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), provides instruction on teaching the Fitness for Life course. For more information, contact Gayle Claman, the Physical Best director, at 800-213-7193 extension 426, or visit www.aahperd.org/naspe/.
Q: What ancillaries are included if I purchase the Fitness for Life student textbooks?
A: A comprehensive set of ancillaries is available to complement the textbook. Contact your sales representative for further details about pricing and availability.
Q: Who else is using Fitness for Life?
A: Thousands of teachers in urban, suburban, and rural settings are using the Fitness for Life program. Contact your sales representative for information on schools using the program near you (click on Contact Your Sales Rep).
Q: What is the reading level of the Fitness for Life student textbook?
A: The average reading level, using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readability scores, is 7.9. The program has been used in middle schools in grades as low as 6 and in high schools at all grades (9 to 12).
Q: Does Fitness for Life work? Is it research based?
A: Studies published in the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Science and Pediatric Exercise Science found that students who received "concepts" physical education (Fitness for Life) were less likely to be sedentary that students who received "traditional" physical education. The students who received the Fitness for Life education were also less likely to be sedentary than the national average. This was true for both males and females.