Promoting Physical Activity: A Novel Demonstration Of Developing A Home-based Bodyweight Exercise Program Generating App...2021 ACSM Annual Meeting & World Congresses [Virtual], June 1 -5, 2021
Engagement in physical activity (PA) is decreasing due to the lack of time, facility, and knowledge - three commonly cited barriers to PA. Novel COVID -19 has further disrupted engagement in PA for many by limiting access to facilities and qualified exercise professionals. Virtual home-based bodywei...
| Publicado en: | Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise Vol. 53; no. 8S; pp. 242 - 244 |
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| Formato: | abstract proceedings research Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
2021 Supplement
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=152582164&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 152582164 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01959131 4DP jtl: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise issn: 01959131 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2021 Supplement vid: 53 iid: 8S pid: 433 pub: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins place: Baltimore, Maryland artinfo: ui: 152582164 152582164 152582164 10.1249/01.mss.0000761868.42280.77 152582164 ppf: 242 ppct: 2 formats: tig: atl: Promoting Physical Activity: A Novel Demonstration Of Developing A Home-based Bodyweight Exercise Program Generating App...2021 ACSM Annual Meeting & World Congresses [Virtual], June 1 -5, 2021 aug: au: YuanDian Zheng Haoyu Li Gao, Kevin Gallo, Paul M. affil: Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY sug: subj: Physical Activity Health Promotion Therapeutic Exercise Home Environment Mobile Applications Algorithms Congresses and Conferences ab: Engagement in physical activity (PA) is decreasing due to the lack of time, facility, and knowledge - three commonly cited barriers to PA. Novel COVID -19 has further disrupted engagement in PA for many by limiting access to facilities and qualified exercise professionals. Virtual home-based bodyweight fitness software may serve as a good intervention in resolving these barriers. However, commercial fitness apps rarely feature individualized exercise programming, nor has past literature shown how to develop one. PURPOSE: To demonstrate a novel algorithm and develop a nonprofit open-source exercise program generating app. METHODS: Using ACSM recommendations, an algorithm was designed that stresses basic exercise principles. Figure 1 shows the recommender system of six processes in our design. The first process is the pre-PA screening. From second to fourth processes, information of goal, time, and exercise level is collected generating up to twenty-seven associated exercise patterns. Exercises are then randomly deployed into these patterns to maximize variability. Lastly, a detailed report is generated. Based on this design flowchart and a detailed algorithm, Node.js, Express framework, Mongo database, and Azure cloud were used to program the app. RESULTS: Over 200 exercises and their instructions indexed in the database were randomly deployed into these patterns each time when a program is generated with over approximate 2 * 1028 variable outputs. The final app was deployed at cloud: home-exercise.azurewebsites.net. Detailed algorithm and source code were publicly hosted here: github.com/columbia-dsi/fit. CONCLUSION: An individualized home-based bodyweight exercise program generating app was created, which offers a potential solution to overcome major public PA barriers. Open source code is also available as the reference for future researchers to develop a more intelligent system and investigate how virtual training tools can help increase PA. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: abstract proceedings research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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