Reasons for physical activity adhesion in women

Abstract

The physical activity is recommended as alternative to mitigate changes deriving from age advancement, in addition to that, considering that the physiologic decreases on the human being's life begin at midlife and increases over the years. This study's purpose was to check the reasons to attract women from various age ranges to attend physical activity groups at Unicamp's Mexa-se [Move] Program. 78 women (Unicamp's employees) were assessed, who attend the activities of the mentioned program. The information was plotted on the software Microsof Office Excel 2010. It was checked, through results, that the main reasons to attract this group to the physical activity performance are: health condition improvement/maintenance (90%), life quality improvement (86%), overall wellness increase (81%) and disease prevention (82%). However, other factors such as weight loss (26%), occupy free time (31%), avoid loneliness (28%) and by medical recommendation (27%) also contribute to the group adhesion and physical activity programs. In this study, we conclude that the assessed women are concerned on their overall health and other important factors, which contribute to the adhesion and permanence to physical activity programs in general.