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Barriers of Physical Activity

The document discusses barriers to physical activity and ways to overcome them. It identifies personal barriers like lack of time, motivation, and enjoyment. The top three barriers are time, energy, and motivation. Environmental barriers include access to facilities and the surrounding environment. Suggestions are provided for overcoming common barriers such as lack of skills, resources, weather conditions, travel, and family involvement. Strategies include selecting low-skill activities, using free community resources, planning indoor activities, and exercising with family.

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Barriers of Physical Activity

The document discusses barriers to physical activity and ways to overcome them. It identifies personal barriers like lack of time, motivation, and enjoyment. The top three barriers are time, energy, and motivation. Environmental barriers include access to facilities and the surrounding environment. Suggestions are provided for overcoming common barriers such as lack of skills, resources, weather conditions, travel, and family involvement. Strategies include selecting low-skill activities, using free community resources, planning indoor activities, and exercising with family.

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Module B: Lesson 4

Grade 11 Active, Healthy Lifestyles


Barriers to Physical
Activity

• Personal barriers
– Insufficient time
– Inconvenience
– Lack of self-motivation
– Non-enjoyment
– Boredom
– Lack of confidence
– Fear of being injured or having been injured recently
– Lack of self-management skills
– Lack of encouragement, support, or companionship
– Non-availability of parks, sidewalks, bicycle trails or
walking paths
Top Three Barriers

 Time
 Energy
 Motivation
Other Barriers

• Cost
• Facilities
• Illness or injury
• Transportation
• Partner issues
• Skill
• Safety considerations
• Child care
• Uneasiness with change
• Unsuitable programs
Barriers to Physical
Activity

• Environmental barriers
– Environment in which we live has a great influence on our level of
physical activity.
– Accessibility of walking paths, cycling trails, and recreation facilities.
– Traffic
– Availability of public transportation
– Crime
– Pollution
– Social environment, such as support from family and friends
– Community spirit
• Changes environment?
• campaigns to support active transportation, legislation for safer
communities, and the creation of new recreation facilities
Barriers to Being Active
Quiz

 Identify the types of physical activity barriers that
are undermining your ability to make regular
physical activity a part of your life
 Analyze the results and determine the key barriers to
your physical activity participation
 Identify personal barriers that are not part of the quiz
Overcoming Barriers to
Physical Activity

 Brainstorm realistic ways of overcoming barriers to
physical activity
Overcoming Barriers to
Physical Activity

 What strategies have worked best for you in
overcoming your own barriers to become more
physically active?
Suggestions for Overcoming
Physical Activity Barriers
Lack of skill

•Select activities requiring no new skills, such as walking, climbing stairs, or
jogging.
•Exercise with friends who are at the same skill level as you are.
•Find a friend who is willing to teach you some new skills.
•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 calisthenics.
•Identify inexpensive, convenient resources available in your community (e.g.,
community education programs, park and recreation programs, worksite
programs).
Suggestions for Overcoming
Physical Activity Barriers

Weather conditions
•Develop a set of regular activities that are always available regardless of
weather (e.g., indoor cycling, aerobic dance, indoor swimming, calisthenics,
stair climbing, rope skipping, mall walking, dancing, gymnasium games).
•Look on outdoor activities that depend on weather conditions (e.g., cross-
country skiing, snowshoeing, skating, outdoor swimming, outdoor tennis) as
“bonuses”—extra activities possible when weather and circumstances permit.

Travel
•Put a jump rope in your suitcase and jump rope.
•Walk the halls and climb the stairs in hotels.
•Stay in places with swimming pools or exercise facilities.
•Join the YMCA or YWCA (ask about reciprocal membership agreement).
•During gas station stops, take exercise breaks.
•Bring your favourite music that motivates you.
Suggestions for Overcoming
Physical Activity Barriers

Family involvement
•Exercise with your brother or sister when babysitting (e.g., go for a walk
together, play tag or other running games, get an aerobic dance DVD for
kids and exercise together). You can spend time together and still get your
exercise.
•Find ways to be active around your home with others (e.g., shoot hoops
on the driveway, play tennis at a nearby tennis court, go for a bicycle ride
with a friend, play with siblings, do household chores such as mowing the
lawn).
•become more physically active?

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