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Factors affecting the adoption of exercise behavior among sedentary older adults |
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| Authors: | Howze, Elizabeth Harper Smith, Michelle DiGilio, Deborah Ann |
| Affiliation: | Division of Health and Physical Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 1Northern Virginia Planning District Commission 7630 Little River Turnpike, Suite 400, Annandale, Virginia 22003 2American Public Health Association 1015–15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 2005, USA |
| Abstract: | This research examines factors affecting the adoption of regularexercise by sedentary older adults and describes changes infitness indicatiors among sedentary, community-living well elderlywho volunteered to take part in a 10-week free exercise program.High attenders could be differentiated from low attenders onthe basis of exercise expectations at baseline. Both high andlow attenders experienced reducation in systolic blood pressureand gains in flexibility, but only high attenders experiencedreducation in diastolic blood rpressure and weight and increasedcardiovascular endurance. Knowledge of the number of days andminutes one should exercise, commitment to exercise and benefitsexperienced from exercise explained 34% of the variance whenregressed on the Exercise Behavior Index. |
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