Fitness

Personal and Environmental Barriers Keep Women Age 40 and Older from Exercising

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 20th, 2000

A national study involving nearly 3,000 women 40 years of age and older in the U.S. finds that physical inactivity, a major chronic disease risk factor, may be due in part to not being around others who exercise.

The study, in the July issue of Health Psychology, also found that a majority of women would rather exercise on their own with instruction rather than undertaking exercise in an instructor-led group ("Personal and environmental factors associated with physical inactivity among different racial-ethnic groups of U.S. middle-aged and older-aged women," Health Psychology, July 2000).

Psychologists Abby C. King, PhD, and Cynthia...

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