The Impact of Lifelong Sports and Exercise on Health: Report

This report investigates the impact of lifelong participation in sports and exercise on health, focusing on the UK context. It begins with an introduction highlighting the positive effects of physical activity on preventing chronic diseases. The research question explores the impact of lifelong sports and exercise, supported by a literature review that uses an interpretive approach to analyze qualitative data. The review examines studies on the relationship between exercise, sports, and health, emphasizing the benefits of sports in terms of mental and physical well-being, such as stress reduction, strengthened bones, and enhanced stamina. The report discusses research approaches, ethical considerations, and limitations, including biases and the need for extensive resources. Findings indicate that lifelong involvement in physical activities positively impacts health by improving heart and lung function, enhancing mental health, and managing weight. The report concludes by summarizing the positive effects of sports and exercise on health and emphasizing the use of the interpretive research approach to understand the relationship between health and exercise.

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“The impact of lifelong participation in sports and exercise on health”

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Research Question...........................................................................................................................2
Research approach...........................................................................................................................2
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Discussion and Findings..................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Participating in sports and exercise put positive effects on the health of an individual, the
estimation describes that engaging in regular physical activity is particularly apparent in the
prevention of several chronic diseases (Côté & Hancock, 2016). In the UK, people increase their
participation in games and sports because of living stress-free and to remain physically fit (Gries
et al., 2018). Therefore, in the present report “The impact of lifelong participation in sport and
exercise on health” topic is selected. The discussion will be made by describing the research
question, research approach and conducting a literature review on the chosen topic.
Research Question
 What is the impact of lifelong participation in sport and exercise on health?
This research question is selected because the studies describe that the majority of the population
in the UK prevent from health diseases because of participating regularly in the sports and
through exercise daily (Jackson-Kersey & Spray, 2016). This topic is a major concern because
not much of the studies are conducted to understand the influence of more participation in sports
and other exercises on health in the UK. Therefore, through this review government and other
institutions can develop more programs for reducing health issues and can spread awareness to
encourage the majority of the population.
Research approach
The literature review is based on the interpretive approach in which qualitative methods are used
and a review of the article is done on describing the reason for using the approach in the present
study. Therefore, the interpretive approach is focused on the assumption that social reality is not
objective as well as singular because it is created through experiences of the human. This
approach is based on reality rather than developing the hypothesis for conducting the procedure
of testing (Vijay et al., 2016). This approach is chosen because "the more participation in sports
and performing exercise daily has a direct influence on the health of the individual in the UK",
that is this subject is based on the reality in the society.

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Literature Review
Researchers conducted the study to investigate the influence of exercise and sports in the health
and physical activity of the individual (Pullen & Malcolm, 2018). In this study, research adopted
a qualitative study is because researchers describe that qualitative information generates more
clearness and precision in determining and understanding the information of the study. Therefore
researchers describe findings with example that in the year 2018, more population in the UK are
prevented from health issues such as they are mentally healthy due to the reduction of stress.
Researchers find that the reason for fewer health issues is because more people participated in
sports that are there is equal participation of men and women in the UK.
The study was performed through adopting the interpretive approach it is because no hypothesis
is made to test the data so that results will be achieved, the information in the study is conducted
through a literature review that is by reviewing several articles (Côté & Hancock, 2016).
Researchers developed a research question which includes that what are the factors which
influenced the health of people in the UK, in this researchers focuses on positive factors.
Therefore through investigation researchers describes that games and sports provide the positive
result to the people and strengthen the bones as well as enhance the stamina of the population in
the UK.
The objective of the study is to understand the impact of the lifelong focus of a person
participating in sports and exercise (Wilson et al., 2016). It is because researchers describe that
the majority of health is prevented because of exercising regularly. Researchers conducted the
study through a qualitative approach because researchers believe that the perspective and
opinions of the respondent are highly involved in the social phenomenon. Through the
investigation, researchers believe that for lifelong participation in sportspeople balance their diet
and maintain flexibility. This should be estimated from the example that in the year 2015, the
youngster maintains their diet and become more flexible because of participating in activities in
their universities in the UK (Eime et al., 2016). Researchers also faced some ethical issues
which include that biasness with the respondents.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of encouraging people into sports for
lifelong health (Jackson-Kersey & Spray, 2016). Therefore, the data collection was done through
taking interviews from the respondents in this approach researchers used an interpretive

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approach for describing the results of the data systematically. Therefore through the analysis,
researchers' description explains through taking an example that sports increase the satisfaction
of the person because of reducing the fat and prevent them from depression as well as anxiety.
Therefore study also describes that this approach has some limitations which include that in this
more time and resources are required to provide accurate information and to link the data with
the research objective (Hamer et al., 2018). The researchers also describe that more data
sometimes reduce the efficiency of correct and accurate information.
Researchers perform the research to investigate the influence of contributing lifelong in exercise
in the UK. In this researcher adopt the observation method because of using qualitative
information; researchers studied the overall result and impact of phenomenon (Narushima et al.,
2018). Researchers demonstrate that it adopted this approach because it helps in describing the
hidden reason because of taking various opinions and describing them according to the result.
The findings of the study revealed that its impact in a positive manner because researchers find
that there is a link between exercise and psychological health because of reducing the depression,
stress and anxiety from the individual. Researchers demonstrate that this approach also faces
ethical challenges in which researchers face the problem of keeping the information of the
respondents confidential (Durden-Myers et al., 2018). The study also faces limitations gathering
information because of differences in the opinion and preferences of the different respondents,
this sometimes gives inaccurate results.
Researchers also describe the findings by taking the example that in the UK, regular exercise
prevents people from high blood pressure, problems related to heart disease and several other
major problems which include cancer (Northey et al., 2018). In this researchers adopted the
qualitative approach because researchers believe that it is a suitable method for understanding
the relationship between two factors that is in the present study exercise, sports and health are the
factors for which the study is conducted.
The objective of the study is to analyze the effects of lifelong participation in sports on health
disease prevention (Merghani et al., 2016). The study decided to use the qualitative method in
which the opinions of the authors and respondents could be written descriptively. From the
analysis, the researchers find that the estimation shows that exercise and regular exercise
decrease the blood pressure and manage the weight of the individual. Therefore from the

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example researchers also demonstrate that exercise leads in providing a better mood and give
better sleep to the individual.
The researchers also use a similar approach that is an interpretive approach it is because it
supports the researchers to develop the theory and use the theory to attain the result so that
outcomes of the research achieved according to the research objective (Nesti, 2016). Therefore
data collection was through secondary method and findings revealed that more participation in
sports and doing regular exercise reduce the blood cholesterol level of the person. For example,
exercising a person remain physically fit and makes the bones stronger and reduce the threat of
osteoporosis. This also supports the person to work efficiently by also decreasing the risk of a
heart attack.
The objective of the research is to examine the influence of more involvement of a person in the
exercise. In this study researchers adopted a qualitative method in this researchers give a clear
description of the responses given by the participants (Vijay et al., 2016). The researchers
selected this approach is because of conducting the study about the events and structure already
performed. Through the analysis, the researchers describe that the "Center for Disease Control
and Prevention" revealed that exercise reduces the problem of overweight because of increasing
the energy level and increase the energy and improve the attitude and mood of the person. The
study also demonstrates that ethical issues involved because each individual has different
opinions regarding the exercise and health of the person (Ennis, 2017). It is because of culturally
diverse, generation gap and due to several other differences. Researchers also describe that the
study has several limitations which includes that it does not provide complete information
because a person hesitates to disclose the overall information.
The purpose of the research is to investigate the influence of lifelong participation in sports and
exercise on health issues (Thomson & McAdoo, 2016). This study is important because it also
shows the negative effects of involving more in sports activities for the longer term. This
researcher focuses on using the qualitative approach is because this study is based on the reality
and problem which a person faces in society. The findings of the research revealed by taking an
example that sports and exercise can increase the cognitive function of the individual by
reducing depression and reduce the threat of having dementia. It also has negative effects which
include that it can do sports-related injury to the person. The researchers describe that the study

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has limitations which include that it only focuses on using a qualitative approach that is no
hypothesis and testing approach is used in conducting data analysis in an effective manner
(Hallgren et al., 2017). The other is only the literature review method is used to get the
information in which only respondents of authors are required.
The overall aim of conducting the research is to understand the association between taking
involvement in exercise and sports in the overall condition of health in the UK (Gries et al.,
2018). The study is conducted by taking the ideas of authors and describing with so that the
opinions of the authors will be clearly shown. The investigation of the authors describes those
lifelong results in reducing heart-related diseases to the individual. Researchers also describe that
it can also prevent the person from lung cancer because regularly and lifelong in the exercise
raise the lung's ability and build up the respiratory muscles.
The estimation also includes that health issues will be resolved by exercise and contributing
more in games and sports (Dvorak et al., 2017). Therefore, through adopting the qualitative
approach it becomes difficult to maintain honesty, confidentiality and legality so that ethical
issues will be addressed. This researcher mainly adopts a qualitative approach because of
understanding the reality in society so that research becomes important for another person to take
necessary steps.
Findings
The above-estimated articles describe that lifelong involvement in physical activities and
exercise gives positive effects to the person in preventing health (Dvorak et al., 2017). The
articles find that sports and exercise improve the heart and lungs related diseases. The results of
the researchers also revealed that it improves the mental health of the person because of reducing
depression, anxiety and enhancing the stamina of the individual (Jackson-Kersey & Spray,
2016). Some studies also revealed that exercise and sports manage the weight, reduce blood
pressure and keep the individual healthy and fit. These studies adopt an interpretive research
approach it is because the study is based on realism which affects the overall society. The study
focuses on the health issue which influences positively because of enhancing the health and
reducing disease of the individual (Gries et al., 2018). This approach is also used due to
understanding the association between health and exercise. The approach also has some

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limitations which show that it involves more resources and increases biasness because of
describing the information and opinions of each author and respondent (Merghani et al., 2016).
This data are not equally credible which results in misleading.
Conclusion
From the above, it is concluded that research is conducted based on examining the effects of
lifelong involvement of a person in the sports and doing exercise. In this review qualitative
approach is used due to focusing and containing the perspective of the respondents so that real
and accurate data will be gathered. Therefore, through the review, it is revealed that there is a
relation among the exercise, participation in sports and health because of reducing the diseases
and maintaining a better diet of the person. The estimation describes that in UK people face
lower health issues because of more participation in games and sports as well as doing more
exercise regularly.

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