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• Barriers to Physical Activity

  • Personal
  • Environmental
  • Behavioral
• Personal Barriers


  • Insufficient time
  • Inconvenience
  • Lack of enjoyment or increased boredom with physical activity
  • Fear of injury
  • Feelings of self-consciousness or shame when being physically active
• Most common reasons adults don't adopt more physically active lifestyles

  • Insufficient time to exercise
  • Inconvenience of exercise
  • Lack of self-motivation
  • Non-enjoyment of exercise
  • Boredom with exercise
  • Lack of confidence in their ability to be physically active (low self-efficacy)
  • Fear of being injured or having been injured recently
  • Lack of self-management skills, such as the ability to set personal goals, monitor progress, or reward progress toward such goals
  • Lack of encouragement, support, or companionship from family and friends
  • Non-availability of parks, sidewalks, bicycle trails, or safe and pleasant walking paths close to home or the workplace
• Environmental Barriers

  • Lack of access to gyms and workout facilities
  • Inadequate sidewalk coverage
  • Few parks/green spaces
  • Deficiency in walking/biking trails that are safe and in a convenient location
  • Lack of encouragement
  • Social support
  • Companionship with family and friends when trying to initiate a physical activity program
• Common Barriers to Physical Activity for College Students

  • Low motivation
  • Lack of peer interest
  • Inconvenience (challenging gym/facility location or no equipment availability)
  • Time constraints (exercise interrupts work/school/social duties)
  • Lack of confidence in using equipment
• Benefits of Physical Activity

  • Psychological improvement
  • Social benefits
  • Physical appearance
  • Feeling of productivity
  • Identity improvement (enhanced self-concept and attitude)
• Overcoming Lack of Time

  1. Identify available time slots

  2. Monitor your daily activities for one week

  3. Add physical activity to your daily routine

  4. Select activities requiring minimal time, such as walking, jogging, or stair climbing
• Overcoming Social Influence

  1. Explain your interest in physical activity to friends and family

  2. Invite friends and family members to exercise with you

  3. Develop new friendships with physically active people
• Overcoming Lack of Energy

  1. Schedule physical activity for times in the day or week when you feel energetic

  2. Convince yourself that if you give it a chance, physical activity will increase your energy level
• Overcoming Lack of Motivation

  1. Plan ahead

  2. Invite a friend to exercise with you on a regular basis

  3. Join an exercise group or class
• Overcoming Fear of Injury


  1. Learn how to warm up and cool down to prevent injury

  2. Learn how to exercise appropriately considering your age, fitness level, skill level, and health status

  3. Choose activities involving minimum risk
• Overcoming Lack of Skill


  1. Select activities requiring no new skills

  2. Take a class to develop new skills
• Overcoming Lack of Resources


  1. Select activities that require minimal facilities or equipment

  2. Identify inexpensive, convenient resources available in your community
• Overcoming Weather Conditions


  Develop a set of regular activities that are always available regardless of weather
• Personal Barriers


  Several reasons individuals give for avoiding participation in regular physical activity are personal in nature.
• Environmental Barriers


  l aspects which may influence an individual's physical activity participation are both physical and psychosocial in nature
• Behavioral


  characteristics play an important role in shaping perceptions of physical activity participation.
• Weather Conditions


  Develop a set of regular activities that are always available regardless of weather (indoor cycling, aerobic dance, indoor swimming, calisthenics, stair climbing, rope skipping, mall walking, dancing, gymnasium games, etc.)
• Lack of Resources


  Select activities that require minimal facilities or equipment, such as walking, jogging, jumping rope, or calisthenics.
• Lack of Resources


  dentify inexpensive, convenient resources available in your community (community education programs, park and recreation programs, worksite programs, etc.).
• LACK OF SKILL


  Select activities requiring no new skills, such as walking, climbing stairs, or jogging.
• LACK OF SKILL


  Take a class to develop new skills.
• Fear of Injury

  Learn how to warm up and cool down to prevent injury.

  Choose activities involving minimum risk.
• Fear of Injury


  Learn how to exercise appropriately considering your age, fitness level, skill level, and health status.
• Lack of Motivation


  Invite a friend to exercise with you on a regular basis and write it on both your calendars.

  Join an exercise group or class.
• Lack of Motivation


  Plan ahead. Make physical activity a regular part of your daily or weekly schedule and write it on your calendar.
• LACK OF ENERGY


  Schedule physical activity for times in the day or week when you feel energetic.
• LACK OF ENERGY


  Convince yourself that if you give it a chance, physical activity will increase your energy level; then, try it.
• Social influence


  Social influence

  Explain your interest in physical activity to friends and family. Ask them to support your efforts.
• Social influence


  Develop new friendships with physically active people. Join a group, such as a hiking club.
• SOCIAL INFLUENCE


  Invite friends and family members to exercise with you. Plan social activities involving exercise.
• LACK OF TIME


  Add physical activity to your daily routine. For example, walk or ride your bike to work or shopping, organize school activities around physical activity, walk the dog, exercise while you watch TV, park farther away from your destination, etc.