Promoting physical activity by stealth

BHFNC logo.The 14th British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health (BHFNC) conference captured examples of physical activity projects and programmes reflecting the theme: Creating partnerships - promoting physical activity by stealth.

The case studies summarised in this conference's sharing practice booklet are examples of ‘stealth interventions’ where:

  • the primary objective or end - goal of the intervention, movement or cause may be unrelated to increasing physical activity levels, but a supplementary outcome of the project is a change in physical activity behaviour
  • there is a focus of people’s intrinsic motivations/passions to attract them to physical activity.