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Overcoming Barriers to Physical Activity: Empowering You to Live an Active Lifestyle

This module explores personal and environmental barriers to physical activity, providing strategies to overcome them. Learn how to identify and address time, energy, motivation, cost, and safety issues hindering your active lifestyle.

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Overcoming Barriers to Physical Activity: Empowering You to Live an Active Lifestyle

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  1. Addressing Barriers to Physical Activity Module B: Lesson 4 Grade 11 Active, Healthy Lifestyles

  2. 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

  3. Top Three Barriers • Time • Energy • Motivation

  4. Other Barriers • Cost • Facilities • Illness or injury • Transportation • Partner issues • Skill • Safety considerations • Child care • Uneasiness with change • Unsuitable programs

  5. 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 • Sommunity spirit • Changes environment? • campaigns to support active transportation, legislation for safer communities, and the creation of new recreation facilities

  6. 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

  7. Overcoming Barriers to Physical Activity • Brainstorm realistic ways of overcoming barriers to physical activity

  8. Overcoming Barriers to Physical Activity • What strategies have worked best for you in overcoming your own barriers to become more physically active?

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