Press Release
HKBU and CUHK launch MusFit Action mobile app to encourage a healthy lifestyle
Thursday, 05 Nov 2020
The Dr. Stephen Hui Research Centre for Physical Recreation and Wellness (CPRW) at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), in collaboration with the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has officially launched the MusFit Action mobile app.
The launch of the mobile app is an important milestone for the Jockey Club Mus-Fit Action project. Inaugurated in 2019 with the support of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the three-year project aims to promote a healthy lifestyle to the community, enhance the citizen's quality of life.
Under the project, a series of simple home-based exercises were designed for middle-aged and elderly people, to help them train their muscles and develop a habit of doing exercise regularly. Interested participants, aged 50 or above, will be invited to join a three-month training course to practice the exercises. After course completion, participants will continue working out at home on their own for the following nine months. The MusFit Action mobile app serves to guide and motivate participants to continue with their exercise programmes and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Key functions of the mobile app include:
- A digital health adviser function which enables users to easily obtain accessible health and exercise information as well as sports and health knowledge.
- Demonstration videos for users to follow and do self-workouts at home.
- Reminders to remind users to do exercise.
- A class schedule of the project's exercise courses for eligible new participants' reference and registration.
Users who register for the mobile app will be asked to fill in a questionnaire, so that the project team can evaluate whether ttheir physical condition is suitable to join the programme.
Users can also receive a health report by filling in their personal health information, such as height, weight and lifestyle, through the mobile app, after which a health score will be shown for the users' reference. The app will channel health data collected from users to a confidential database for academic research purposes.
The project team behind the development of the MusFit Action mobile app includes Professor Chow Bik-chu, Director, Professor Cheung Siu-yin, Associate Director, and Dr Lobo Louie, Associate Director of CPRW at HKBU; and Professor Patrick Yung Shu-hang, Professor and Chief of the Sports Medicine Team in the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology at CUHK.
"We hope that the benefits of the MusFit Action mobile app can go beyond our participants, and extend its influence to the community. With its simple interface, I believe it can effectively motivate the middle-aged and elderly to pay more attention to their health," said Dr Lobo Louie.
The mobile app is available for free download from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
For more details of the Jockey Club Mus-Fit Action, please visit the project website at: https://www.mus-fit.hk/.
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