"Transformation is not five minutes from now. It is a present activity. In this moment, you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self-esteem."
~ Jillian Michaels
What is Active Choices?
Active Choices is an evidence-based program developed by a team of behavioral scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine in collaboration with experts in the areas of Medicine, Public Health, Exercise Science, and Psychology.
The Active Choices program was developed to assist health professionals as well as trained volunteer and peer mentors to implement individualized phone-delivered programs focused on increasing regular health-enhancing physical activity in adults of all ages.
Active Choices has been successfully tested in a series of randomized, controlled clinical research trials spanning over three decades. Extensive research has demonstrated its effectiveness as a safe and valuable method to assist insufficiently active adults in adopting and maintaining an ongoing program of regular physical activity that fits their lifestyle and needs. It can be adapted to a variety of communities and populations.
The Active Choices program comes with training materials and a toolkit that can give program facilitators the skills and resources to deliver individually-tailored, personalized physical activity advice and counseling for adults of all ages, and at all levels of physical fitness and personal motivation. This individualized approach to physical activity facilitates long-term physical activity participation with a minimal amount of in-person contact.
For inquiries about the Active Choices Program toolkit and trainings,
please contact Ines Campero,
Health Enhancing Action Research & Technology Solutions (HEARTS) Lab Manager