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Barriers To Physical Activity

This document discusses barriers to physical activity and ways to overcome them. It identifies personal barriers such as lack of time, motivation, enjoyment and confidence. Environmental barriers include factors like poor street lighting, lack of facilities, traffic and pollution. Suggested strategies to address barriers involve identifying available time slots, exercising with others, learning skills, and selecting activities that require minimal facilities, equipment or new skills. Creating activity-friendly environments may also help encourage physical activity.

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Barriers To Physical Activity

This document discusses barriers to physical activity and ways to overcome them. It identifies personal barriers such as lack of time, motivation, enjoyment and confidence. Environmental barriers include factors like poor street lighting, lack of facilities, traffic and pollution. Suggested strategies to address barriers involve identifying available time slots, exercising with others, learning skills, and selecting activities that require minimal facilities, equipment or new skills. Creating activity-friendly environments may also help encourage physical activity.

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Barriers to

Physical Activity
• The role of physical activity in our day to day lives
has changed over the centuries because of modern
technological advancement that have made people
less active due to certain barriers to participation.
Understanding common barriers to physical
activity and creating strategies to overcome them
may help make physical activity part of daily life.
Personal
Barriers
Have insufficient time for exercise
Lack of self- motivation
Find exercise not enjoyable
Find exercise boring
Lack of confidence
Have fear of being injured or recent injury
Lack self-management skills
Lack encouragement, support, or
Companionship from family and friends
Do not have adequate facilities
Suggested ways to
overcome the
Physical Activity
barriers
LACK OF TIME
• Identify available time slots. Monitor your
daily activities for a week identify at least
three 30- minutes time slots you could use
for physical activity.
• Add physical activity to your daily routine
• Select activities requiring minimal time such
as walking, jogging or stair climbing
SOCIAL INFLUENCE
• Explain your interest in physical activity
to friends and family. Ask them to
support your efforts
• Invite friends and family members to
exercise with you. Plan social activities
involving exercise
• Develop new friendship with physically
active people. Join a group or hiking
club, for instance
LACK OF ENERGY
• Schedule physical activity during
times in the day or week when you
feel energetic
• Convince yourself that if you give it
a chance, physical activity will
increase your energy level. Then try
it.
LACK OF MOTIVATION
• Plan ahead. Make Physical activity a
regular part of your daily or weekly
schedule and write it on your calendar
• Invite a friend to exercise with you on a
regular basis and write it on both your
calendars
• Join a exercise group or class
FEAR OF INJURY
• Learn how to warm up and
cooldown to prevent injury
• Learn how to exercise appropriately
considering your age, fitness level,
skill level, and health status.
• Choose Activities involving
minimum risk
LACK OF SKILL
•Select activities requiring no
new skills such as walking,
climbing stairs, or jogging
•Take a class to develop new
skills
LACK OF RESOURCES
• Select activities that require
minimal facilities or equipment such
as walking, jogging, jumping rope,
or doing calisthenics
• Identify inexpensive, convenient
resources available in your
community
WEATHER CONDITIONS
• Develop a set of regular
activities that are always
available regardless of weather
ENVIRONMENTAL
BARRIERS
• The major environmental barriers are Time, Place,
Space, Climate and Noise. The environment which
we live plays a major role on our level of physical
activity. Factors such as Poor street lighting at night
and a lack of convenient places to do Physical
Activity, traffic, crime and pollution may also have
an effect. Where we live, learn, work and play appear
to have a great deal to do with how active we are.
Creating activity-friendly environment is one way to
help people become inactive such as buildings, streets,
and communities that encourage walking and biking.

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