Active You: Walk, Dance, and Tone Your Abs to Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes

"The PATH intervention guides participants in making changes in their lifestyle and PA habits to support gradual improvement of PA. The health coach provides participants with access to the PATH website and instructions on how to use the resources included in PATH. The health coach meets remotely with each participant twice per month to develop a tailored plan geared towards increasing MVPA. After assigning the PATH level, the health coach guides each participant in selecting their weekly PA goal and helps them start slowly with a plan to establish regular exercise frequencies of 3-5 days per week.~Participants will use a combination of walking, dance, and abdominal core workouts to add at least 10 minutes of MVPA to their baseline PA every two weeks. The remote coach will encourage each participant to engage in at least 2 days of aerobic training (walking or dance sessions), and one day of abdominal core workouts."

Study staff will have a Zoom meeting with each control group participant where they will be advised to use the Be Active Your Way handout and to self-monitor PA using ScanWatch. Additionally, the group will be introduced to www.health.com, a jargon-free website that focuses on general health topics (e.g., dry eye) and the latest medical news (e.g., vaccines). Every 2 weeks control participants will meet on Zoom with study staff to review their progress in the study so as to keep the contact between the groups as similar as possible.

Participants will be asked to wear a ScanWatch tracker on their non-dominant hand for the entire duration of the study using a 24-hour wear protocol.

The research team will examine diet quality and provide all study participants with educational content curated to promote diet quality. To minimize participants' burden, both the intervention and control arms will receive an email with a brief PDF addressing new diet components every 4 weeks