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- Title
Descriptive Assessment of Exercise Program on Fitness and Correlates of Participation.
- Authors
Lanier, Angela Baldwin; Jackson, Erica Marie; Azar-Dickens, John; Anderson, Brock; Briggs, Meredith
- Abstract
Objective: To assess health-related fitness, physical activity correlates, and completion of a half-marathon using a 3-day training program in a college community. Methods: 26 volunteers participated in a 20-week, half-marathon training program. Results: All participants completed the half-marathon. Positive changes in health-related fitness and psychological correlates associated with future exercise participation were observed. Conclusions: Incorporating strategies that address physical activity correlates and barriers may increase adherence to a program with a challenging goal such as training for a half-marathon. A low-frequency program was sufficient for increasing health-related fitness and psychological factors related to exercise participation of campus community.
- Subjects
COLLEGE students; STATISTICAL correlation; EXERCISE; PATIENT compliance; PHYSICAL fitness; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALES (Weighing instruments); T-test (Statistics); PATIENT participation; COMMUNITY-based social services; LONG-distance running; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 5, p647
- ISSN
1087-3244
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5993/AJHB.36.5.7