Promoting Wellness Fitness and Sports Volume 9, Issue 2 • October 2014 •
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A division of CF Morale & Welfare Services Une division des Services de bien-être et moral des FC PSP DIRECTOR OF FITNESS PROMOTING WELLNESS FITNESS AND SPORTS VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2 • OCTOBER 2014 • WWW.CFMWS.COM Message from DFit 2 Great Work In The Field Blast Off the Pounds 9 Force Equipment 2 PSP Supports The Royal Roadrunner 10 Did You Know 2 Canadian Navy 6 Congratulation PSP 10 Fitness Profile/Incentive Program 3 A Busy Summer in Bagotville! 6 Eileen du Plooy 10 Get Ready For... Sports Day in Canada 4 Teamwork Working 7 DFit HQ Takes On Prison Break 11 6th Military World Games 2015 4 Garrison Games 2014 Christine Charron 11 DFit Becomes a NASA Consultant 5 – Health Promotion/PSP Toronto 7 Meet PSP Shearwater 12 Borden Celebrates 7th Annual and Fitness Day 8 MESSAGE FROM DFIT On the 22nd of August I had a chance It’s important that we take the time to FORCE to attend Dave Shirley’s retirement appropriately recognize these individuals luncheon in Gagetown and present him for their contribution but more Equipment with his retirement certificate on behalf importantly that we continue to build As highlighted in previous of CFMWS. Dave, a former PERI and on the strong foundation they’ve helped communications, the way-forward member of 2 RCR has been a staple of create. for additional purchases of FORCE equipment remains with equipment the Gagetown PSP fitness staff since the being made available through a stand-up of PSP in 1997. I was fortunate NMSO (Standing Offer). DFIT has Two principles which we should never provided the technical specs and a enough to share an office with Dave lose sight of are: draft statement of work (SOW) to during my time as a Fitness and Sports Chief Military Personnel Procurement i. While degrees, diplomas and staff to assist them in the public Instructor and I count myself lucky to certifications provide a solid procurement process. While CMP have had Dave show me the ropes during is now the project lead, DFIT will foundation, they mean very little to my early years with PSP. continue to stay engaged and support our clients unless you are able to lead the overall process but given that this is now within a public procurement from the front; and framework delays remain a possibility. Such an experience is certainly not We would recommend that local staff ii. No matter your role within PSP, if you unique to me. Most of us have probably take the necessary steps to extend/ ground your decisions and focus your preserve FORCE testing equipment had a former PERI/ PERO to assist with stock. Should the procurement efforts in areas that most contribute our transition to working within military exercise extend beyond 10 months PSP to improving physical performance, HQ would then consider facilitating environment. New PSP Fitness, Sport wellness and operational readiness another purchase of FORCE equipment and Health Promotion staff may not be through DFit HQ (NPP). more often than not you will succeed. as fortunate as the number of former PERIs and PEROs within PSP continue to decrease as more of them approach their Thanks Dave and all the best retirement eligibility age. to you and Nancy on a Fit and Did You Healthy Retirement! Know? A FSI can conduct personal training or fitness programming for any PSP clients (including PSP Recreation clients) as part of their normal FSI job and would be covered by the NPP consolidated insurance program when doing so. This could be done during “normal working hours” or as overtime. However, as Personal Training of non-CAF members is not a public responsibility and not the primary role of FSIs, Directors must ensure that the work does not interfere with the Fitness and Sports work and that cost for any time spent doing non-CAF personal training is charged to the Recreation budget and not the Fitness and Sports budget. For more information contact [email protected] 2 VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2 • OCTOBER 2014 • WWW.CFMWS.COM MESSAGE FROM DFIT Fitness Profile/Incentive Program: The Fitness Profile/Incentive Program was relationship between FORCE performance We’ve had very little push back regarding briefed to Armed Forces Council (AFC) on and VO2max has been validated by DFit the waist circumference measurement, 13 May 2014. Subsequent briefs were R&D) and includes waist circumference and the eFit data collection solution provided to Base and Wing Fitness and (there is a strong relationship between using the iPad minis is proving to be Sports Directors during Regional Sports waist circumference, mortality and a great success so far but much work Director meetings while DFIT and Local morbidity) to address healthy body remains. We are preparing for another PSP teams also trialed the proposed composition, providing a general picture AFC brief in December and continuing our program in Kingston (CJOC), Edmonton of physical fitness (Figure 1). The results engagement with DIM Secure and Shared (CA), Esquimalt (RCN) and Greenwood thus far have been very positive with Services to address the IM/IT challenges (RCAF). In total 625 CAF personnel CAF members and PSP staff alike both that go with such an endeavor. This is participated in the sessions spread over 5 appreciating the visual feedback of the a DFIT priority activity and all signs are weeks in May and June. The Fitness Profile profile and the overall group picture it can positive for a full trial within the first 6 uses the FORCE Evaluation performance represent (Figure 2). months of FY 2015/2016. to predict aerobic capacity (a strong Figure 1 Figure 2 VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2 • OCTOBER 2014 • WWW.CFMWS.COM 3 GET READY FOR… 6th SPORTS DAY IN CANADA Military World RBC Sports Day in Canada, presented by Be sure to officially register your event at Games 2015 ParticipACTION, CBC and True Sport, will cbcsports.ca/sportsday : Denis Gaboury, Canadian be held on November 28-29, 2014 in CAF • All registered events will appear on Forces Sports Manager, PSP HQ Ottawa communities from coast to coast to coast. the in-show ticker during the RBC Commodore Mark Watson, Director This national celebration of sport, from Sports Day in Canada broadcast on General Morale and Welfare Services, accepts an invitation to the 6th Conseil grassroots to high performance, is an November 29 on CBC; International du Sport Militaire (CISM) opportunity for all Canadians to celebrate • Those registered online before 30 Military World Games from Colonel the power of sport, build community September will receive a FREE event Choi Jang Min, the Republic of Korea’s and national spirit, and facilitate healthy, Defence Attaché to Canada. The celebration kit (while supplies Military World Games will be held active living! last) with posters, tattoos, and fun in Mungyeong, Korea from October promotional items; and 2-11, 2015. Over the course of 10 days, thousands of military athletes • Your location could receive a from over 100 countries will compete $2,000 grant from ParticipACTION to in 24 sports. For the Canadian Armed Forces, the Military World Games will help enhance your event. also provide a special opportunity to recognize the service of Canada’s Korean War Veterans. Please use the following website to help you plan and promote your RBC Sports Day in Canada event: http://sportsday.cbc.ca/eventtools 4 VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2 • OCTOBER 2014 • WWW.CFMWS.COM DFIT becomes a NASA consultant. By Pat Gagnon, Senior Manager Human Performance, PSP HQ Ottawa NASA was looking at putting together a group of experts to discuss critical mission tasks for astronauts. The organisers spoke with a few of their American colleagues who suggested they should invite the “Canadians” because they (us) had done some very good work in this field recently. So I received an invite from one of the senior scientists from the exercise physiology laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston to join a panel of experts that would meet in Houston, Texas in July. The working group convened at the Lunar and Planetary Institute of the Universities Space Research Association, nearby NASA headquarters in Houston on July 17-18. Seven external experts joined 9 NASA researchers to discuss the potential demands of a future mission to Mars. I was the only non-American on the panel. Some of us presented our respective areas of work in order to set the stage for the discussion. The panel was very impressed by the information they received on Project FORCE and were amazed at the level of detail that went in to our task analysis, our measurements and in developing our new fitness standards. Although NASA has some of the brightest minds in the world thinking about very complex issues, having a very concrete “real life” application of a fitness standard was certainly eye-opening for many. The working group discussion revolved around how to select and prepare astronauts for a potential mission to Mars that would require no less than 6 months of transit to the red planet aboard a very small vehicle, performing a 15-month mission on the ground followed by another 6-month return trip back to Earth At this stage, we brainstormed on various fitness requirements and fitness training (and testing) options based on a variety of tasks and environments that astronauts could possibly encounter. We finished off our trip with a backstage visit to various laboratories at the Johnson Space Centre where we got to see up close the different space suits, the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory where all the modules of the ISS are reproduced in a 40-foot deep massive pool and where astronauts get to rehearse their Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA) in a simulated microgravity environment; get a demo of the various simulators for movement in 0 to 1G and see the different iterations of lunar and Mars rovers.