PHED-1006EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heredity
12 Jun 2018
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Learning and regularly using self-management skills can help you adopt and
maintain healthy lifestyles throughout life
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How do you overcome barriers OR how do you get motivated?
Making Lifestyle Changes
Barriers to exercise/being active
Mental
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Physical
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Social
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Environmental
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Do barriers differ for…
Beginners
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Intermediate
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High performance
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Common Barriers: Things People Say
"No time, busy, better things to do"
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"Exercise is: too hard, boring, expensive, embarrassing, not fun/unenjoyable,
painful…"
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"Self-conscious about how I look"
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"Too tired, lazy, unmotivated"
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"Too old, injured, or scared"
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Don't know how or what to do/intimidated"
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No access or place to go
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A "lifestyle" is more than the way we spend our time
"Lifestyles" are the behaviours we adopt based on the context of life
circumstances
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Take time to change
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People progress forward and backward through several stages of change
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Personal Influences
Things that we cannot control, that influence lifestyle "choices" and health
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Age, gender, heredity, social status, health status (How might these influence
"choices"?)
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Cultural and Social Influences
Power of media
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Group identity (ie. Peers are active vs. peers are not active)
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Social acceptance of "negative health behaviours" that compete
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Politics
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Blame and prejudice; stereotypes
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Environmental Influences
Environment provides a "setting"
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Hard to adopt healthy behaviours when settings discourage
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Environment presents unhealthy options and fewer ways to be healthy
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Stages of Change/Trans theoretical Model: What do they need in these stages
Contemplation stage: NO ACTION
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Preparation: need some skills
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Action: motivation to stay there, connections (what they value), good support
system, know the benefits of healthy lifestyle, coping when barriers come up
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Maintenance: workout plan, better goals, specific, putting plan to action,
progress from goals.
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Concept 3: Self-Management & Self-Planning Skills
for Health Behaviour Change
Monday, November 13, 2017
8:34 AM
