Exercise Buddy Pro

Challenge students, not the teacher. Exercise Connection works to develop a visual exercise system that challenges and supports students, all at the teacher’s fingertips. Exercise Buddy offers four unique benefits for children with diverse learning needs, such as autism –

1. Improve communication
2. Enhance engagement + Instruction
3. Equitable assessment
4. Progress monitoring

Exercise is shown to reduce problem behaviors and increase on-task behavior. Those with autism may need visual supports, videos, and technology to understand and succeed with exercise. Exercise Buddy incorporates the same evidence-based practices that create success for individuals in the classroom:

• Technology aided instruction and intervention
• Visual supports
• Video modeling
• Social narratives
• Positive reinforcement

Exercise Buddy successfully works with all individuals, no matter their age, motor skills, or cognitive ability. A professional, therapist, or parent has everything they need to instruct, assess performance, and collect data.

Exercise Buddy is easy-to-use and equipped with over 125 exercises and matching peer-led videos to help individuals achieve success. It can help you to interactively teach the systems of the human body and has a Teaching Tools section, which can help parents give their child activities to do at home and give teachers the ability to teach exercise across the curriculum.

The visual exercise categories include motor coordination, body image, posture, abdominal strength, muscular fitness, yoga, sports skills, dynamic flexibility, and fitness room.

Exercise Buddy Features:

• Teaching Structures – First-Then and Start-Finish Board
• Exercise Library - Over 125 exercise visuals with matching Video-Model
• Verbal Praise (after exercises and workouts are completed)
• Teaching Tools – Print over 50 classroom and at home worksheets
• Create user profiles to manage multiple users
• Save unlimited amount of workouts
• Save and monitor Health History (height, weight, BMI, waist/hip ratio)
• Turn on/off audio feedback

Click here to find our hardcopy Visual Exercise System packages.

Click here to be put in contact with an Exercise Connection specialist.

FAQs

1. What devices is Exercise Buddy Compatible with?

Apple Compatibility

• • iPad: Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later
  • Mac: Requires macOS 11 or later and a Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later

Android Compatibility

• • Requires Android 5.0 and up
  • Most Android Tablets
  • Most Google Chromebooks*

2. Do I have to be on WiFi to use Exercise Buddy?

• • You must be connected to WiFi to download Exercise Buddy onto your tablet and sign in to your account. Once all content is downloaded, and you are signed in, you can use most features without WiFi

3. Can EB be projected onto a wall or used on a Smartboard?

• • Yes, as long as you have the connections between the tablet and projector/smartboard, EB can be projected

4. How many workouts can I save?

• • With Exercise Buddy, you can save unlimited First-Then, Start-Finish, and Circuit Workouts