An exercise machine with hair? How dogs can increase physical activity /

Adequate motivation and support are critical factors for initiating and maintaining changes in behavior, including becoming more physically active. A growing body of evidence indicates that dogs can have a meaningful impact on the decisions by individuals to start and stick with efforts to be physic...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	American College of Sports Medicine (Screenwriter), Healthy Learning Videos (Producer)
Other Authors:	Epping, Jacqueline N. (Speaker)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	This edition in English.
Published:	Monterey, CA : Healthy Learning, 2011.
Series:	Sports medicine and exercise science in video
Subjects:	Dogs. Dogs > Therapeutic use. Exercise. Human-animal relationships. Animals > Therapeutic use. Internet videos. Filmed lectures.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	Adequate motivation and support are critical factors for initiating and maintaining changes in behavior, including becoming more physically active. A growing body of evidence indicates that dogs can have a meaningful impact on the decisions by individuals to start and stick with efforts to be physically active. An Exercise Machine with Hair? How Dogs Can Increase Physical Activity presents an overview of the underlying rationale, evidence, and selected case studies to help explain how dogs can be used to help people engage in health-enhancing physical activity on a regular basis.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 24, 2014). Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (55 min.). Previously released as DVD.
Playing Time:	00:54:41