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Special Olympics Fitness Evaluation: Physical Activity Wearables

Description: Physical activity wearables are the most accurate way to track changes in physical activity, sedentary time, sleep, and moderate to vigorous intensity activity. Wearables are also a fun tool for athletes that encourages physical activity monitoring and goal setting. Providing athletes with a wearable device can allow for on-going data monitoring before, during, and after fitness programming.

Special Olympics Fitness Evaluation: Fitness and Health Assessments

Description: A series of in-person assessments used to determine improvements in health and fitness. The assessments are compiled in a manual with instructions for implementation (provided below).

Special Olympics Fitness Evaluation: Attendance Tracking

Description: Regularly monitoring attendance is essential for understanding engagement and adherence, which ultimately contributes to improved program effectiveness and outcomes. By keeping a record of attendance, you can identify trends in program growth or decline, assess program impact, and make data-informed decisions.

Sargent Shriver Global Messengers 2018 – 2023

Our Sargent Shriver Global Messengers are chosen from among top athlete leaders around the world. They're athletes, and they're spokespeople for our movement.

BWF and Special Olympics Host First-Ever Federation-led Education and Competition Event

In another demonstration of the ever-strengthening partnership between Special Olympics and the Badminton World Federation, a global technical training and regional competition was recently held in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Special Olympics Fitness Evaluation: Lifestyle Survey

Description: A survey created for athletes to determine improvements in health and health related behaviors. This survey also includes questions to understand athletes’ satisfaction with fitness programs.

健身队长

要成为伟大的运动员,您必须保持健康。从运动的角度关注健康有助于在日常生活中做出积极的选择,还有助于提高运动表现、预防受伤以及改善整体健康状况。健身队长将与他们的教练密切合作,以帮助确保健康和健身是运动体验的一个关键组成部分。

本培训课程的目的是为健身队长提供所需的技能和知识,使他们能够带领运动队进行与健身和健康生活方式相关的活动。

Sports Essentials Videos

Special Olympics Football

Football is considered the world’s most popular sport. Introduced to Special Olympics in 1986, it is currently the second largest Special Olympics sport by athlete number, with participants rapidly growing. Special Olympics offers a number of different football codes, training, and competition opportunities for athletes and unified partners to participate in. Watch this video to find out more.

Warm-Up and Cool-Down Videos

Dynamic Warm-Ups and Cool-Downs are an important part of every workout, training session, or competition. Follow along with these videos to learn how to perform the different exercises in the sport-specific warm-up and cool-down guides. Questions? Please email fitness@specialolympics.org

September 2023

An overview of Health-related initiatives at Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023. Topics include: Healthy Athletes screenings, event medical operations, and the Golisano Health Leadership Awards.Slides (PDF)