NFL and AHA create Mobile Fitness App to Get Youth Moving

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The National Football League teamed up with the American Heart Association to create a mobile app that encourages fitness and physical activity, Prevent Obesity reports.

The NFL Play 60 app is a game that requires players to run in place and jump through a course of parks, city, and street views.

Because players run in place and jump in place, they can use this app to be active indoors and outdoors, or anytime they want to get a few minutes of physical activity!

Like many other popular games available to young people, the player collects coins and has different achievements while playing, like “Run 1000 yards!”

Unlike other mobile app games, in the NFL Play 60 game if you don’t run in place or jump, your character doesn’t either!

Youth can choose their avatar, and upgrade their look or gear through the coins they collect while running.

Over the past nine years the NFL and AHA have worked together to create the NFL Play 60 program, that encourages middle school aged students to get active and become healthier.

This app is an extension of their program, and helps students get more physical activity in their days while playing a fun game.

It also features suggestions for other physical activities, water breaks during the game, fun nutrition facts, and resources for healthy living for both kids and adults.

The app is currently available through the iTunes store and is set to be available for Android phones in mid-February.