Physical Wellness

Achieve Your Physical Fitness Goals

The APD Wellness Unit is here to provide you with the resources you need.

Performing structured exercise for the purpose of building or maintaining physical fitness is well documented to improve health outcomes while minimizing the risk for certain chronic illness such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and certain types of cancer. The Cooper Institute estimates that 80 % of law enforcement professionals reach full retirement age, 14 % take early retirement or go on disability, and 6 % die during employment. Most agencies report that heart disease, musculoskeletal problems such as back injuries and stress disorders like anxiety and depression are the major reasons for disability and early retirement. The increased health risk seen in the law enforcement profession increases the need for a holistic approach to the maintenance and improvement of mental, emotional and physical health.

Physical Fitness Defined

Physical fitness is the organic condition of the body which enables an individual to use his/her body in activities requiring strength, muscular endurance, cardiorespiratory fitness, flexibility, coordination, agility, power, balance, speed and accuracy – without undue experience of fatigue and exhaustion.

Physical fitness may also be defined as the ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue and with ample energy to engage in leisure time pursuits and to meet the above-average physical stresses encountered in emergency situations. The four components of physical fitness are:

• Cardiorespiratory Fitness
• Body Composition
• Flexibility
• Strength

Wellness at Work

Learn more about Wellness at Work, the portal used for tracking your exercise and much more.

For assistance signing up via desktop, follow these instructions. 

Tips for Exercise Minute Tracking

• If you use and sync a fitness tracking device, be sure to start and end your workout from your device to make sure it counts toward your minutes.
• If you do not use a tracking device, you can manually enter your workouts in the app in the “Stats” section under “Workouts”.
• Device tracked workouts will be tracked in the “Stats” section of the app under “Active Minutes”, while manually entered workouts will be tracked under “Workouts”.
• Try to stick to either device tracked entries OR manually entered entries each day, to avoid conflicting tracking time when reports are pulled.
• Be sure to log into the app at least weekly to allow for updates and proper tracking.

Additionally, complete the Health Check Survey annually in the Personify App to earn a $25 credit, to be redeemed for numerous in-app options.
For more information, please contact Kamryn Gonzales, [email protected].

Report Your Annual Physical

This form is used for employee's to document their annual physical in order to track incentives in accordance with APD SOP 1-36. Submission of this information is voluntary.