As we approach the end of the school term Healthy Moves’ staff are in our schools testing the kid’s heart rates with IHT (Interactive Healthy Technologies) wrist heart rate monitors that we were able to purchase with financial support from Slocum Center for Orthopedics & Sports Medicine. We’ve had great success working with the kids and love their excitement in working with the monitors and learning about the levels of fitness they can achieve.
The monitors register yellow for mild, green for moderate, and red for vigorous exercise/movement which we assess during the JumpStart program. The kids are always excited to work with the monitors and to learn about how to increase their physical movement which will in turn make them more healthy. Thanks again to Slocum surgeons for their support.

Slocum Orthopedic and Sports Medicine, and Solcum Research & Education Foundation have been generously supporting Healthy Moves. Their financial support has allowed Healthy Moves to move our JumpStart Program forward to reach children that would usually sit and wait for school to start in the mornings after they have had breakfast. Healthy Moves is working to get kids to understand how they can move and get the “wiggles out” before they head to the classroom to focus on their academics, and be cognitively focused. The support from Solcum has allowed Healthy Moves to purchase heart wrist monitors, so we can test kids and give them the ability to understand mild, medium and vigorous exercise levels. 

Interested in working with us at Healthy Moves? Your support can make a huge difference in our efforts to promote physical literacy and health in our local kids. If this sounds like something you would be interested in or you would like to support Healthy Moves by contributing in any other way, please feel free to contact Keely Pence at keely@hm4kids.org.