Enhancing Health and Physical Activity Rates through Pentathlon

Enhancing Health and Physical Activity Rates through Pentathlon (EHPARP) aims at employing Pentathlon as a tool of promoting health-enhancing physical activity among the European youth and adult populations as well as providing dual career opportunities to Athletes in the individual disciplines forming part of Pentathlon practice who will be empowered as Coaches/Trainers in their disciplines and in comprehensive programmes of Pentathlon for an adult and a youth audience. The project is targeted at the following categories, as both direct and ultimate target groups: 1) Young people aged 18-30 not practising Sport and motivated to approach physical activity and Sport practice through Pentathlon. 2) Adults aged 31-55 who are not taking part in Sport and wish to approach Pentathlon as an instrument of physical activity and wellbeing/active ageing EHPARP includes the following activites: Activity 1 Research and selection of existing Athlete profiles for empowerment as Coaches and Trainers in the context of Pentathlon programmes for young people and adults in all partner countries. Activity 2 Production of a Training Format for the empowerment of Pentathlon Coaching/Training profiles by means of a combination of good practice research, identification of needs and inputs by selected Athletes in the context of local workshops. Activity 3 Local Piloting of the Format with selected Athletes. Activity 4 Round of local workshops of Pentathlon practice with a target of young people and adults in gender-mixed and gender balanced groups. The workshops will take place in each partner country with an audience of 30 young people aged 18-30 and 30 adults aged 31-55 per country. Activity 5 Online platform with learning modules and simulations of online exercises for an audience of prospective Coaches and Trainers in Pentathlon, comprised of exercises and simulations. The Platform will be compounded and connected to a specific APP for the measurement of users' performance.