IT4Life ActiveLifestyle

The Active Lifestyle App offers three levels of dedicated Strength and Balance physical exercise training plans for elderly. Using an interactive, friendly and easy to use interface, old adults, without any computer skills, are able to perform workout sessions and improve their balance and lower body muscle strength. The Active Lifestyle App offers videos and rich written information about the exercises, stores the trainers performance and progress toward the plan. Yet, to make the exercising activity more motivating the trainers can share their performance and interact with other training partners who are following the same training plans. However, sharing is not mandatory: the app also supports a version where nothing needs to be shared.

The Active Lifestyle app is free of charge! To start training you only need a gmail account and some specific physical training material (i.e., one Pilates ball, one resistance band, and a pair of ankle weights).

To have a look and feel idea about the Active Lifestyle app watch our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFjHcUtt_A

For more information about the Active Lifestyle app and our research team, please visit: http://www.lifeparticipation.org

This app is a collaboration effort between Life Participation, University of Trento, Italy (http://www.lifeparticipation.org) and the Human Movement and Sports, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (http://www.ibws.ethz.ch/about/history/index_EN)