SISFFIT016 Presentation: Exercise Adherence and Behavior Change

This presentation delves into the critical aspects of exercise adherence, highlighting key determinants such as motivation, self-determination, and health awareness. It proposes strategies to enhance adherence, including motivation improvement, awareness campaigns, reward systems, and comprehensive support. The presentation also addresses common reasons for discontinuing exercise programs, like daily life constraints, financial limitations, and lack of self-confidence, along with the associated risks such as increased depression, weight gain, and muscle atrophy. Furthermore, it examines the positive and negative factors influencing physical exercise, focusing on health status and economic conditions, and suggests creating inclusive fitness venue environments. The presentation concludes by emphasizing goal setting and providing meaningful feedback as effective strategies for promoting positive exercise behavior.

PART B
PRESENTATION ON
EXERCISE ADHERENCE

COMMON DETERMINANTS OF
EXERCISE ADHERENCE
• Exercise adherence is basically the ability to follow a
consistent exercise program.
• Degree of motivation and self determination among the
people plays a major role in determining exercise adherence
among the people.
• Increased health related issue is also a major factor, through
which awareness is being generated among people regarding
physical exercise.
• Objective of improving emotional health is also a key
determinant of exercise adherence.

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING
EXERCISE ADHERENCE
As exercise adherence is the major way of staying
fit and healthy, there are certain strategies that
need to be implemented. The strategies are as
follows:
• Improving motivation among the people is the
greatest way of accelerating exercise adherence.
• Awareness regarding the significance of regular
physical exercise needs be integrated among the
people.

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING
EXERCISE ADHERENCE
• Proper utilization of rewards is the greatest way
of amplifying exercise adherence.
• It is imperative to encourage the people to
experience, the positive feeling which they can
experience after loosing weight or another
health issue.
• Comprehensive support system is also a major
way of improving exercise adherence.

COMMON REASONS FOR
DISCONTINUATION OF AN EXERCISE
PROGRAM
• Hustle and bustle of daily life is one of major
factor that is creating barrier for people to get
time out and exercise regularly.
• Poor financial condition also creates barriers
for the people to access fitness centers.
• Lack of self-consciousness and confidence is
also a major reason for which, people
discontinue exercise program mostly.

RISK OF DISCONTINUING PHYSICAL
EXERCISE
There are certain risks of discontinuing physical exercise, which are as follows:
• Stopping exercise suddenly leads to increased depression among people,
which generally affects their emotional wellbeing.
• At the same time, stopping exercise also hampers the body weight, which is
one of the major reasons behind obesity (Macniven et al., 2017).
• Shrinking of muscles is also a greatest challenges of discontinuing physical
exercise.

FACTORS INFLUENCING PHYSICAL
EXERCISE
The positive factors influencing Physical exercise are
discussed below:
• State of health is one of the most significant factors
behind physical exercise. The aim of staying fit and
healthy by preventing all the deceases are acting as
driving force behind the people to be engaged in
physical exercise regularly (Tang & Jardine, 2016).
• In addition, increased self-determination is also a
major factor in modifying exercise behavior among
human being.

FACTORS INFLUENCING PHYSICAL
EXERCISE
The negative factors affecting physical exercise are as
follows:
• Improper economic condition is one of the major
situational factor, restricting the ability of people to
access fitness center and thereby engage in
physical exercise.
• Lack of awareness and educational can be
considered as personal factor, affecting the ability
of people to understand the significance of physical
exercise (Eyles et al., 2016).

FITNESS VENUE ENVIRONMENTS
• In order to enable the people especially from the marginalized community to engage
in physical activity, a fitness venue needs to be selected.
• Equality must be maintained in allowing the people in this venue.
• All the necessary information related to the aim of the venue need o be shared with
all the participants (Azzopardi et al., 2018).
• Awareness program must be included needs to be included in the venue for making
it east for the participants to have knowledge regarding the significance of staying fit
and healthy.

STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING
POSITIVE EXERCISE BEHAVIOR
• Goal setting is one of the greatest ways, through
which the behavior towards exercise can be
reinforced. A certain weight along with time frame
needs to be set. This can act as a biggest
motivational factor towards promoting positive
exercise behavior.
• Meaningful feedback needs to be provided after
each exercise session. This can help in reinforcing
every body in order to extent their participation in
physical exercise.

References
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