Resources

If you are an inactive parent who knows they need to be more active and wants to re-engage with an active pursuit and build better health for your family, then you are in the right place!

On this page you can find resources to help you:
  1. Identify barriers to good parent health
  2. Better define your role modeling as a parent
  3. Assess your body status
  4. Determine your active pursuit
  5. Formally assess your Quality of Life
  6. Perform an informal health screening at home
1. Identify barriers to good parent health
  • Jarvis, J.W., Harrington, D.W. & Manson, H. Exploring parent-reported barriers to supporting their child’s health behaviors: a cross-sectional study. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 14, 77 (2017).
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-017-0508-9
2. Better define your role modeling as a parent
  • Bringolf-Isler, B., Schindler, C., Kayser, B. et al. Objectively measured physical activity in population-representative parent-child pairs: parental modelling matters and is context-specific. BMC Public Health 18, 1024 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5949-9
3. Assess your body status
4. Determine your active pursuit
  • What is your active pursuit of choice? (worksheet)
    https://bit.ly/RRMe-AP-pdf
  • Oja, P., Titze, S., Kokko, S., Kujala, U. M., Heinonen, A., Kelly, P., Koski, P., & Foster, C. (2015). Health benefits of different sport disciplines for adults: systematic review of observational and intervention studies with meta-analysis. British journal of sports medicine, 49(7), 434–440.
    https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2014-093885
5. Formally assess your Quality of Life
6. Perform an informal health screening at home
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