PHYSICAL EDUCATION

AND HEALTH 11
Second Semester – Module 5
Barriers to Physical Activity
Assessment Participation

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Second Semester - Module 5: Barriers to Physical Activity Assessment Participation
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Second Semester – Module 5
Barriers to Physical Activity
Assessment Participation

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page
Title Page ……………………………………… i
Overview ……………………………………… 1
Objective ……………………………………… 1
Lesson 1: Barriers to Physical Activity Assessment Participation
What I Need to Know ………………………………………. 1
What I Know ………………………………………. 1
Personal Barriers ………………………………………. 4
Barriers to Health Quiz …………………………………. 5
What I Can Do ………………………………………. 8
References ………………………………………. 9
 Lesson Barriers to Physical Activity
1 Assessment Participation

What I Need to Know

What is the Module about?
Many technological advances and conveniences that have made our lives
easier and less active, many personal variables, including physiological, behavioural,
and psychological factors, may affect our plans to become more physically active.
Understanding common barriers to physical activity and creating strategies to
overcome them may help make physical activity part of daily life. People experience
a variety of personal and environmental barriers to engaging in regular physical
activity.
This module is about barriers to physical activity assessment participation.

What you are expected to learn?

1. Identify barriers to physical activity assessment participation.
2. Self-assess strengths, interests, and goals to overcome the barriers

What I Know

What to do before?
If you want to exercise but can't seem to do it, this quiz may help you identify
some of the barriers that keep you from being more active.

Barriers to Being Active Quiz

What keeps you from being more active? Take the following quiz to find out.
Directions: Listed below are reasons that people give to describe why they do not
get as much physical activity as they think they should. Please read each statement
and circle the number of the statement that most applies to you:

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Barriers to Physical Activity Assessment Participation

Introduction

Given the health benefits of regular physical activity, we might ask why two-
thirds of Filipinos are not active at recommended levels. According to the Department
of Health, “Two-thirds Filipinos are inactive, a serious threat to their health and a
burden on the public health care system”. This reality clearly points to the need to help
Filipinos become more physically active. There are barriers that keep Filipinos from
being, or becoming, physically active regularly. Understanding common barriers to
physical activity and creating strategies to overcome them may help make physical
activity part of daily life. In this lesson students examine the common barriers to
physical activity and determine which barriers are holding them back from being
physically active. Students also determine ways to overcome those barriers.

Personal Barriers

With technological advances and conveniences, people’s lives have in many

ways become increasingly easier, as well as less active. In addition, people have many
personal reasons or explanations for being inactive. The most common reasons adults
don't adopt more physically active lifestyles are cited as:

• insufficient time to exercise

• inconvenience of exercise
• lack of self-motivation
• non-enjoyment of exercise
• boredom with exercise
• lack of confidence in their ability to be physically active (low self-efficacy)
• fear of being injured or having been injured recently
• lack of self-management skills, such as the ability to set personal goals, monitor
• progress, or reward progress toward such goals
• lack of encouragement, support, or companionship from family and friends
• non-availability of parks, sidewalks, bicycle trails, or safe and pleasant walking
• paths close to home or the workplace

The top three barriers to engaging in physical activity across the adult lifespan
are:
• Time
• Energy
• Motivation

In a 2013 study that aimed to identify the external and internal barriers to
physical activity and exercise participation among middle-aged and elderly individuals
the most common external barriers among the middle-aged and elderly respondents
were 'not enough time', 'no one to exercise with' and 'lack of facilities'. The most
common internal barriers for middle-aged respondents were 'too tired', 'already active
enough', 'do not know how to do it' and 'too lazy', while those for elderly respondents
were 'too tired', 'lack of motivation' and 'already active enough'.

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Other barriers include

• cost
• facilities
• illness or injury
• transportation
• partner issues
• skill
• safety considerations
• child care
• uneasiness with change
• unsuitable programs

Environmental barriers
The environment in which we live has a great influence on our level of physical
activity. Many factors in our environment affect us. Obvious factors include the
accessibility of walking paths, cycling trails, and recreation facilities. Factors such as
traffic, availability of public transportation, crime, and pollution may also have an effect.
Other environmental factors include our social environment, such as support from
family and friends, and community spirit. It is possible to make changes in our
environment through campaigns to support active transportation, legislation for safer
communities, and the creation of new recreation facilities.

Identifying barriers to physical activity

The Barriers to Being Physically Active Quiz was created by the centers for
disease control and prevention to help identify barriers to physical activity and steer
clinician and participant's awareness and target strategies to improve compliance. It a
21-item measure assessing the following barriers to physical activity:
1) lack of time,
2) social influence,
3) lack of energy,
4) lack of willpower,
5) fear of injury,
6) lack of skill, and
7) lack of resources (e.g., recreational facilities, exercise equipment).

Each domain contains 3 items, with a total score range of 0 to 63. Respondents
rate the degree of activity interference on a 4-point scale, ranging from 0 = “very
unlikely” to 3 = “very likely.”

BARRIERS TO HEALTH QUIZ

Overcoming Barriers
The following are exercises and suggestions for how individual can overcome
these barriers.

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Lack of time Identify available time slots.

• Monitor your daily activities for one week. Identify at least three 30-minute time
slots you could use for physical activity.
• Add physical activity to your daily routine. For example, walk or ride your bike to
work or shopping, organize school activities around physical activity, walk the
dog, exercise while you watch TV, park farther away from your destination, etc.
• 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 friendships with physically active people. Join a group, such as the
dance group or a basketball club.

Lack of energy

• Schedule physical activity for 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 an exercise group or class.

Fear of injury

• Learn how to warm up and cool down 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.

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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
(community education programs, park and recreation programs, worksite
programs, etc.).

Weather conditions

• Develop a set of regular activities that are always available regardless of the
weather (indoor cycling, aerobic dance, indoor swimming, calisthenics, stair
climbing, rope skipping, mall walking, dancing, gymnasium games, etc.)

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.
• Visit the local shopping mall and walk for half an hour or more.
• Bring your mp3 player your favorite aerobic exercise music.

Family obligations

• Trade babysitting time with a friend, neighbor, or family member who also has
small children.
• Exercise with the family-go for a walk together, play tag or other running games,
get an aerobic dance or exercise tape for kids (there are several on the market)
and exercise together. You can spend time together and still get your exercise.
• Jump rope, do calisthenics, ride a stationary bicycle, or use other home
gymnasium equipment while the kids are busy playing or sleeping.
• Try to exercise when the kids are not around (e.g., during school hours or their
nap time).

Retirement years

• Look upon your retirement as an opportunity to become more active instead of

less. Spend more time gardening, walking the dog, and playing with your
grandchildren. Children with short legs and grandparents with slower gaits are
often great walking partners.
• Learn a new skill you've always been interested in, such as ballroom dancing,
square dancing, or swimming.
• Now that you have the time, make regular physical activity a part of every day.
Go for a walk every morning or every evening before dinner. Treat yourself to
an exercycle and ride every day while reading a favorite book or magazine.

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 What I Can Do

1. Examine factors that have an impact on the development and

implementation of and adherence to a personal physical activity plan.

Examples: motivation, barriers, changing lifestyle, values and attitudes, social

benefits, finances, medical conditions, incentives, readiness for change.

2. Examine and evaluate factors that affect fitness and activity choices.

Examples: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, personal interests, personal

health, family history, environment, finances, culture, level of risk

Essential Questions

1. What are the differences between personal and environmental barriers?

2. What strategies worked best in overcoming your own barriers to becoming
more physically active?

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References

Psychopedia.com (2021), Barriers to Physical Activity

https://www.physio- pedia.com/Barriers_to_Physical Activity

Harvard University: Harvard Medical School (2021), What are your

barriers to exercise? https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/what-are-your-
barriers-to-exercise

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2007), “Overcoming

Barriers to Physical Activity.” Physical Activity for Everyone.
https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/physhlth/frame_found_gr11/rm/module_b_lesso
n_4.pdf