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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.
Fitness

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).
Fitness

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.
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Sargent Shriver Global Messengers 2018 – 2023

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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.
In the News

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

Man playing badminton and running for the birdie.
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.
Fitness

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.
Leadership Excellence

Fitness Captain

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To be a great athlete, you must be a healthy athlete. A focus on fitness through the lens of sport can help drive positive daily choices that support sports performance, injury prevention and improvement in overall health and wellbeing. Fitness Captains will work closely with their coaches to help ensure health and fitness is a key component of the sports experience.

The purpose of this training course is to provide Fitness Captains the required skills and knowledge that will allow them to lead their sports team in activities related to fitness and healthy lifestyle.

Sports Essentials Videos

Special Olympics Football

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
Healthy Communities Webinars

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)
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