PathFit

• Exercise-based fitness activities


  Physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive and has as a final or an intermediate objective the improvement or maintenance of physical fitness
• We cannot prevent exercise but we have the choice not to do it
• We have the choice not exercise but we can manage to do it
• Physical activity (WHO)


  Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure
• Exercise (NIH)


  A subset of physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive and has as a final or an intermediate objective the improvement or maintenance of physical fitness
• Exercise


  Management
• Physical inactivity is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and a widening variety of other chronic diseases, including diabetes mellitus, cancer (colon and breast), obesity, hypertension, bone and joint diseases (osteoporosis and osteoarthritis), and depression
• The risk of death from any cause and from specific diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease) is associated with physical inactivity
• Exercise management


  A multidimensional process that plays a critical role in optimizing athletic performance, preventing injuries, promoting recovery, and ensuring the overall well-being of athletes in sports
• Exercises are only part of a larger range of activities that allow us to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies
• The range of activities that we engage in should be incorporated into a Cycle of Continuous Improvement for Developing Capacity in Health Emergency Management
• Structured approach


  A systematic and organized method of approaching a task, problem, or situation, involving breaking down complex tasks or problems into smaller, more manageable components, and then addressing each component in a logical and sequential manner
• The success of any exercise depends upon the adoption of a structured approach
• Exercises are invaluable in providing the experiences required to prepare individuals, agencies and countries to respond to and recover from emergencies
• The success of any exercise is reliant upon adopting a structured approach
• Exercise management model


  A structured approach that identifies the stages required for the effective designing, conducting and evaluating of an individual exercise or a program of exercise related activities
• Reasons for conducting an exercise

  • Test plans
  • Evaluate
  • Assess
  • Practice
  • Train
  • Demonstrate
• Identify the need


  Asking the question: "Why conduct an exercise?"
• Reasons for the need to conduct an exercise


  • Outcomes or recommendations from previous exercises or actual response and recovery operations
  • Newly developed plans or procedures
  • A change of resources, capability or structures
  • Maintaining and updating plans, procedure, practices
• Analyze the need


  1. Identify the need

  2. Determine the objectives

  3. Establish the aim
• To be effective, the number of objectives should be kept to a minimum
• Each objective should be supported by performance indicators that identify the means by which we confirm that the objectives have, or have not, been achieved
• Design the exercise


  1. Determine the scope, type and participants

  2. Document the general idea and special ideas

  3. Establish the exercise planning team and responsibilities
• Scope of the exercise


  Defining what is to be included and what is not included in the exercise, avoiding 'scope creep'
• Care must be taken to ensure the scope of the exercise is broad enough so that the objectives can be achieved, but is not beyond the capabilities of the participants or those responsible for conducting the exercise
• Types of exercises


  • Discussion exercise (Orientation, Hypothetical, Tabletop)
  • Functional exercise
  • Field exercise (Demonstration, Drill, Full Scale)
• Orientation exercise


  Designed to familiarize participants with a new environment, process, or concept
• Hypothetical exercise


  Presents participants with a fictional scenario or situation to explore potential outcomes and responses
• Tabletop exercise


  A facilitated discussion that simulates an emergency situation or crisis to test and validate an organization's emergency response plans and procedures
• Functional exercise


  Closely related to discussion exercises but normally take place in a simulated operational environment, requiring participants to actually perform particular functions or tasks
• Field exercise


  Involve deployment of actual resources that are simulated
• Simulation allows participants to engage in activities or scenarios that closely resemble actual situations without the real-world consequences
• Identify the participants


  Engage them as soon as possible to determine their role and resources they can commit
• Document the scenario


  Develop a general idea and special ideas
• General idea


  Includes all the background information which would normally be available as general knowledge in the exercise
• Special ideas


  Also known as 'exercise serials', should be arranged in chronological order and recorded on a 'Master Schedule'
• Exercise planning team


  The group that has primary responsibility for the design, conduct and evaluation of the exercise, managing this through planning meetings
• Exercise control team


  Operates during the Conduct phase, led by an Exercise Director, to ensure the exercise purpose and objectives are achieved in a realistic manner
• Conduct the exercise


  1. Detailed coordination by the Directing Staff to initiate and control the various stages of the exercise

  2. Pre-exercise activities to prepare agencies and individuals

  3. Briefing

  4. Starting the exercise

  5. Managing the exercise

  6. Finishing the exercise