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Barriers to Exercise for Weight Loss Real for Women
October 28, 2010: 0 comment(s)
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It makes sense that overweight women would have more of a
struggle to stay on a regular exercise program than their thin
counterparts. After all it takes a lot of effort to move, but Melissa
Napolitano and Kelley Borradaile, professors at the Center for
Obesity Research and Education at Temple University wanted to
know if their were other reasons why women who wanted to lose
weight did not use exercise as part of their weight loss strategy
despite its proven benefits.
This research goes to the core assumptions of losing weight
because, as Napolitano put it, “There is an underlying attitude about
weight loss, that it’s easy if you just eat less and exercise more. But
if losing weight were easy, we wouldn’t have the obesity epidemic we
have today.”
The researchers identified six main reasons women do not exercise.
They are: feeling self-conscious, fear of failure or injury, feeling in
poor health, having aches and pains and feeling too overweight to
work out. “These might sound like excuses to some people, but for
those who have these aversions, they’re real problems.”
278 women of varied weights participated in an exercise
encouragement study for a year. Questionnaires were filled out at
the beginning, at three months, and at twelve months. Researchers
noticed that at each stage, the obese women were less active and
their weight predicted that they were less likely to be exercising at the
end of the year.
Napolitano commented, “This is the first time we’ve been able to
systematically look at what stops obese women from getting the
activity they need.” She suggested programs aimed at overcoming
these barriers, may improve the odds of weight loss success.
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