Reviewed Physical Activity Promotion Materials

50 Great Reasons to Exercise
This material promotes physical activity through listing many honest and some creative reasons to exercise.

Aerobic Exercise: The Basics - Parlay International
This material provides good information on the short and long term benefits of aerobic exercise, guidelines for choosing the most appropriate aerobic activities, suggestions for getting started and sticking with an exercise program, and helpful charts for determining target heart rates.

Aerobic Exercise and Weight Management - Parlay International
This material provides good information on how weight loss is related the caloric balance between eating and aerobic exercise while also providing helpful charts for determining target heart rates and the caloric cost of various activities.

Activity Pyramid, The - Park-Nicollet Health Source
This colorful and creative material promotes physical activity to an adult audience using multiethnic illustrations that complement an easy to remember layout which is appropriate for individuals who are inactive to those who are consistently active.

Activity Pyramid for People Over 60, The - Park-Nicollet Health Source
This colorful and creative material promotes physical activity to an older adult population with a simple comprehensive message that is complemented well with activities that are specific to this population.

Benefits of Feeling Fit, The (2 of 5)
This booklet is designed to inform sedentary adults of the advantages of leading an active lifestyle. It encourages persons to visualize becoming more active and leading a fuller life.

Energize Yourself: Stay Physically Active - National Institutes of Health
This material promotes a simple comprehensive physical activity message to an African-American audience through appealing illustrations, cultural relevance, common activities, a personal goal statement and exercise log with examples.

Exercise... A Little Is All It Takes - Hope Health
This material promotes physical activity to the adult population with a specific emphasis on the ease of becoming physically active.

Exercise: Finding The Time - Journeyworks Publishing
This material promotes a physical activity message that is appealing for individuals faced with a lack of time by suggesting common activities that can be incorporated into daily life.

Exercise is Fun - Channing L. Bete, Co.
This unique material promotes physical activity as being healthy and fun for children through coloring and puzzle activities.

Exercise! Ten Tips To Get You Started - Journeyworks Publishing
This material promotes a physical activity message that is relevant for most adult populations with its 10 simple tips to get active, suggestions for support, and its at-a-glance layout which is appealing and easy to follow for individuals looking to get started.

Exercise: The Magic Bullet
This colorful and creative brochure is intended for adolescents and adults prepared to begin an exercise program.

Exercise Your Stress Away - Journeyworks Publishing
This material promotes physical activity as a way to reduce everyday stress and stress related health problems with information that is appropriate for most adult and late adolescent populations.

Feeling Good About Being Fit (4 of 5)
A booklet that is intended to help adults stick with their exercise program. It includes suggestions on how to overcome obstacles and a personal wellness contract to ensure adherence.

Fit Again - ETR Associates
This material promotes reestablishing a physically active lifestyle in individuals who have been successfully active in the past by drawing on past success in exercise programs and current motivational issues.

Fitness: What's in it for Me? - ETR Associates
This material uses a fun and colorful presentation to promote interest in physical activity while addressing various benefits and potential barriers that are common to adolescents and young adults.

Fitness for Older Adults: It's Never Too Late - Channing Bete, Co.
This material promotes the current physical activity message to the sedentary older adult population through a clear writing style and accompanying multiethnic graphics.

Fitness Self-Test: How Active Are You?
This material promotes the current physical activity message to the sedentary older adult population through a clear writing style and accompanying multiethnic graphics.

Fitness You Can Fit In...Anytime...Anywhere - Oakstone Wellness Publishing
This brochure promotes ways to fit physical activity into your daily routine and how to make it a habit.

Fitting Fitness In Even When You're Pressed for Time - American College of Sports Medicine
This material promotes the current physical activity message to an adult population with a specific emphasis on working physical activity into ones day.

Get in on the Action - American Heart Association
This material promotes physical activity to a multiethnic adult audience with an appealing and simple comprehensive message that focuses on common daily activities.

Getting Fit with No Time and No Money - ETR Associates
This material promotes being physical active to college aged students with a message that provides lots of information on why to be active, how easy it is to get active and examples of how to better fit activity into a busy schedule on a tight budget.

Getting Stronger With Bands
This well organized brochure provides the necessary information for older adults wishing to begin a strength program using bands.

Getting What You Want From Exercise - ETR Associates
This material provides good information for those seeking knowledge on what physical fitness is, the benefits of being physically active, and how to stay motivated in an exercise program.

Healthy Kids. Healthy Families.
This brochure provides parents with creative ideas of how physical activity can be integrated into the family's lifestyle. It also reinforces the importance of physical activity in the physical and mental development of children.

Healthy Moves - ETR Associates
This material promotes the current physical activity message specifically to older Caucasian adults through clear text and specific recommendations.

Heart Disease and Women: Be Physically Active
This handout describes the importance physically activity in the prevention of heart disease among women. It provides examples of light, moderate, and strenuous activities along with a sample walking program.

How to Get Moving: On The Road To Fitness - Channing L. Bete, Co.
This material provides adults of all ages and ethnic backgrounds with information about leading a physically active lifestyle with a clear, accurate message that is easy to understand.

Incredible Fitness Facts
This vibrant brochure is designed for teenagers and young adults, and packed with various facts about fitness and exercise.

Just Move! - American Heart Association
This material promotes an easy to achieve physically active lifestyle for individuals just starting out through a fairly comprehensive level of information that is appropriate for most adult populations.

One Step At A Time - Oakstone Wellness Publishing
This brochure promotes the benefits of walking and offers tips on how to plan a walking program and stick with it.

Pregnancy and Fitness
This brochure is intended for pregnant women who wish to start or continue a physical activity program. It provides a weekly plan along with physical activities appropriate for each trimester.

Preparing to Become Physically Fit (3 of 5)
This pamphlet is designed to help adults make the switch from a sedentary lifestyle to a physically active lifestyle. It includes advice on goal setting and how to start an exercise program.

Staying Fit - ETR Associates
This material promotes maintaining a physically active lifestyle in individuals who have already succeeded at becoming regularly active, with added emphasis on health promoting activities such as strength training, stretching, and healthy eating for more energy.

Staying Fit For Good (5 of 5)
The purpose of this booklet is to help adults maintain their physically active lifestyle. It includes recommendations on how to deal with slips and avoid setbacks.

Staying Fit Over 40
This material promotes physical activity as a way to prevent age-related declines in health.

They Will Follow Your Lead
This brochure provides school principals with creative ideas of how physical activity can be integrated into the school day and extracurricular functions. It also reinforces the importance of physical activity in the development of children.

Thinking About Getting Fit (1 of 5)
This booklet is designed to encourage sedentary adults of all backgrounds to start thinking about becoming more active.

Too Much Exercise?
This brochure provides information intended for young adults who may be exercising too much, and as a result experiencing psychological or physical harm.

Walking for Fun and Fitness
This material promotes walking related physical activity to adults while providing helpful suggestions for setting up and overcoming common barriers to a regular walking routine.

Walking for the Health of It
Colorful brochure promotes the benefits of walking along with safety tips. Targets adults and especially those wishing to start a walking program.

Walking Your Way to Healthy Weight
Promotes the current physical activity message to adults interested in losing weight through a walking program.

You Inspire Strong Minds
This brochure provides teachers with innovative ways that physical activity can be incorporated into classroom activities. It also reinforces the significance of physical activity in the physical and mental development of children.

You, Your Child and Exercise - Channing L. Bete Co.
This material provides parents with knowledge of how to get their young children to become more physically active through encouragement and setting good examples.