Electronic Pedometers Can Help Motivate People to Move, Health Experts Say
PHOENIXVILLE - Dr. David Noyes, The Phoenixville Community Health Foundation and the Phoenixville Area YMCA are committed to creating a healthier Phoenixville.
Noyes, who is the Superintendent of the Phoenixville Area School District, is currently participating in the "Super Step Challenge" as part of the YMCA's Activate Chester County initiative to encourage families to live a healthier lifestyle by walking 10,000 steps per day.
Prompted by Noyes, the school district has partnered with the Phoenixville Hospital, the Phoenixville Community Health Foundation and the Phoenixville Area YMCA to raise funds to provide pedometers to the community to count the number of steps walked each day.
The goal for Activate Phoenixville is to get PASD students and employees walking 10,000 steps per day, which is almost the equivalent of 30 minutes of daily activity. The hope is that those students and employees will take the goal home and encourage their families to get Activated as well.
"I think it's an honorable goal to try to make a healthier community," said Noyes. "If we, as adults, model the behavior of a healthy lifestyle, it serves our students as well."
Five thousand pedometers, small pager-sized devices that attach to the belt to count the number of steps taken based on body movement, are due to arrive, courtesy of PASD and the Community Health Foundation, at the end of April, and will be distributed to the community free of charge. Noyes said he is hopeful that another batch will be available in May for the Relay For Life.
"We want to involve the entire community to prepare for Relay For Life," said Noyes.
Activate Phoenixville and Activate Chester County were born from the YMCA's Activate America program, a long-term public health initiative focused on promoting healthy living across the country.
The YMCAs in Chester County involved the school district superintendents as their Activate facilitators, and some superintendents Activated their students and their communities.
"It's one thing to model active behavior, but if it's all I did, I would be losing an opportunity to activate the kids," said Noyes.
Activate America is the YMCA of the USA's response to the country's growing health care crisis. The program is supported by numerous corporations, including Kellogg's, which celebrated its 100th anniversary this past February by donating $1 million to the program.
Noyes, who is the Superintendent of the Phoenixville Area School District, is currently participating in the "Super Step Challenge" as part of the YMCA's Activate Chester County initiative to encourage families to live a healthier lifestyle by walking 10,000 steps per day.
Prompted by Noyes, the school district has partnered with the Phoenixville Hospital, the Phoenixville Community Health Foundation and the Phoenixville Area YMCA to raise funds to provide pedometers to the community to count the number of steps walked each day.
The goal for Activate Phoenixville is to get PASD students and employees walking 10,000 steps per day, which is almost the equivalent of 30 minutes of daily activity. The hope is that those students and employees will take the goal home and encourage their families to get Activated as well.
"I think it's an honorable goal to try to make a healthier community," said Noyes. "If we, as adults, model the behavior of a healthy lifestyle, it serves our students as well."
Five thousand pedometers, small pager-sized devices that attach to the belt to count the number of steps taken based on body movement, are due to arrive, courtesy of PASD and the Community Health Foundation, at the end of April, and will be distributed to the community free of charge. Noyes said he is hopeful that another batch will be available in May for the Relay For Life.
"We want to involve the entire community to prepare for Relay For Life," said Noyes.
Activate Phoenixville and Activate Chester County were born from the YMCA's Activate America program, a long-term public health initiative focused on promoting healthy living across the country.
The YMCAs in Chester County involved the school district superintendents as their Activate facilitators, and some superintendents Activated their students and their communities.
"It's one thing to model active behavior, but if it's all I did, I would be losing an opportunity to activate the kids," said Noyes.
Activate America is the YMCA of the USA's response to the country's growing health care crisis. The program is supported by numerous corporations, including Kellogg's, which celebrated its 100th anniversary this past February by donating $1 million to the program.
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