Introduction | FitBack

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Looking forward to the official public release of FitBack toolkit in Autumn 2025.

What this toolkit is all about

This toolkit is specifically designed to empower educators and their students in showcasing the integral role of physical fitness monitoring in nurturing students’ physical literacy journey. Through the FitBack toolkit, a variety of engaging scenarios and corresponding topics centred around physical literacy, physical fitness, and exercise are presented, enriched with dynamic animations.

The toolkit will be soon translated into multiple languages and hopefully, you’ll find a suitable one for your needs. Below you can find content of the toolkit and instruction how to navigate through toolkit’s pages.

Hopefully, you’ll find our toolkit and other FitBack web pages useful for your students and for teaching and learning. Now we recommend that you start exploring! 

Here are the chapters in the toolkit:

SCENARIOS - The scenarios can inspire teachers and coaches to generate ideas about the potential applications of the topics covered in this toolkit within physical education classes and exercise programs for youth.
PHYSICAL FITNESS - The chapter addresses questions such as what physical fitness is, how it is measured, and why it is important. It explains why physical fitness is the optimal health indicator in childhood and explores its connections to brain function and cognition. Viewers will also discover how to create an appropriate environment for fitness testing.
PHYSICAL LITERACY - The chapter explains what physical literacy is, why it is important, and how it is connected to physical fitness. It also illustrates how the process of monitoring physical fitness can facilitate the development of physical literacy in students.
THE POWER OF FEEDBACK - In this chapter, the significance of feedback on an individual's fitness will be explained, along with terms such as centile values and health-risk zones, which enhance the understanding of the FitBack report.
EXERCISE - The chapter builds on knowledge from previous chapters. Viewers learn how to step from fitness diagnostics to exercise, establishing exercise goals, and creating a personalized plan, also with the support of artificial intelligence tools.

Frequently asked questions

Navigating through toolkit's pages

There are several ways to navigate through the toolkit:

By using Toolkit menu (in Fitback menu bar at the top of each page):
1. Click on menu title ('Toolkit') to open entry (introduction) page of the toolkit.
2. Click on down arrow () to open the Toolkit menu and then select page (Introduction, How to use this toolkit?) or section (e.g. Scenarios, Exercise). If you want to open specific topic from within a section, first click down arrow () next to section title (e.g. Exercise) to open submenu and then click on topic (e.g. Using Chatbots).
By using Table of Contents: this table is near the bottom of every toolkit page (section or topic). Just click on 'Select topic' to open the table and then click any topic (or section) you want to open.
By using navigation bar (below Fitback menu bar), e.g. in a navigation bar "Home > Toolkit > EXERCISE > Using Chatbots) click 'EXERCIZE' to open the toolkit's section or 'Toolkit' to open toolkit's entry (introduction) page.
All topic pages also have See also section with the list of related topics in the toolkit. Just click on the topic's title to open a related topic.

Selecting different languages

How to change video subtitles' language?

All the videos in the toolkit are embedded from YouTube, and their default language is English. To change the language:

While watching the video, click on the "Settings" (gear icon) button located at the bottom right corner of the video player.
Click on the "Subtitles/CC" option.
In the "Subtitles/CC" menu. In the language list select your own. If your language is not listed, then:
1. click on "Auto-translate."
2. list of available languages will appear. Select the desired language from the list.
The subtitles will now be displayed in the selected language.

You can also permanently change the video subtitles language by following this instructions.

How to translate the entire toolkit (web) page?

Most modern web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, etc.) support translating entire webpages (or parts of webpages) to your desired target language. The exact procedure depends on the specific browser. For example, here's how to do it in Chrome. For other browsers use the search engine (example with Google) or ask a chatbot with a prompt like "How can I translate an entire web page in Safari browser?".

Playing videos

All videos (animations) in this toolkit are embedded from YouTube. So you can use all the player buttons and keyboard shortcuts available in YouTube player. For detailed instructions follow Keyboard shortcuts for YouTube (or this cheat sheet).

For instructions about how to change the subtitle's language of a video see the FAQ above (Selecting different languages).