Assignment 1: Exercise Behavior And Adherence

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Veramae Woods
KINS 474 Homework Assignment #1: Exercise Behavior and Adherence
Exercise Behavior and Adherence is an important factor in maintaining health and staying active in everyday life. Most of the research on this topic focuses on the effect that support has on maintaining a workout plan and also how the different varieties of exercise makes a difference in how long people continue their workout plans. Being that I have struggles with maintaining workouts even though I know I need to change my habits, this topic helps motivate me and gives me the guidelines to help me start a workout plan and not stop due to the any struggles that people come across. I have found two articles that shows how motivation plays into how long people maintain …show more content…

The results show that of the 144 students who attended the initial introduction/baseline test, 121 participants received the variety support by attending at least one exercise session and were therefore included in the study. In this study, it resulted that the high variety support group had a greater adherence than the low variety support group as the high variety support group completed an average of 11.56 exercise sessions compared to the low variety support group completing only an average of 9.16 sessions out of 18. The study also focused on competence, relatedness, and autonomy. In this study competence referred to feeling capable and effective in one’s environment, relatedness referred to feeling connected to others, and autonomy referred to feeling of self-governance and volition in one’s choice r behavior. Each person was given a questionnaire regarding effects on perceived variety in competence, relatedness, and autonomy. Results show that there was a statistical significant intervention on perceived variety, but not perceived competence, relatedness or autonomy. The authors in this article explained that higher variety support …show more content…

The main similarity was that they both provided information on how completing a variety of exercises rather than only completing the same exercises every day or every workout session is more effective when it comes to adhering to an exercise program. The differences were that the journal article had more proof where the website article mainly gave suggestions that were not proved in the website article, but were explained in my journal article. Having a study to refer to that has evidence and methodology really helps research and without the journal article many people would be confused and without some type of evidence to prove that something works, people would lack motivation or reasons to work out and see effective results. The authors in both of my articles stressed the importance of having a partner and also not repeating the same exercises as it is not effective in adhering to an exercise

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