Table 5 Case Examples of Barriers Experienced by Participants
Barrier | Definition | Keywords | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|
Hard to keep intensity required | Fitness related limitations during exercise program | Fitness, balance, ageing, or fatigue | Participant 2: We live in the country, I want to spend more time outside, but bugs are a problem, the ground is a problem as well. I have a poor sense of balance, I don’t really enjoy walking, and I’m always looking at the ground Participant 1: Well its difficult, it takes a lot of concentration because you have to look down where you want to put your feet. I tried to look up but I had to look down at the boxes… |
Lack of time | Conflicts regarding exercise schedule | Too busy, prioritizing activities, unorganized, or travel | Participant 4: See, well, I never reached the total goal [≥ 150-min]. I got 90-min because I did it once a day Participant 2: With difficulty, I had to fit it in my days, day by day I would think ahead, I did it after breakfast and after lunch |
Pain | Mild pain during the exercise program | Knee joints, lower back,shoulder joints, leg, or foot | Participant 1: Every time I did the steps for a few minutes I would feel a little pain in the knees as I continued it seemed to go away, my back, lumbar spine gives some pain, occasionally sometimes when I hit the ground and I would feel it in my back Participant 9: I had a difficult time the first week because I did have day surgery on my legs so I had a healing process |
Unsuitable program | Dislikes in specific areas of the exercise program | Boring, repetitive, no incentive, no social interaction, too much space | Participant 3: Specifically, I don’t like the home-steps program it’s not for me and it’s too boring just the short distance and rotation… Participant 6: They were simple exercises with the exception of one that I found difficult and that was the triceps exercise and that was only because my back was hurting… |
Negative previous experience | Recalls a negative previous experience | Torn tendons in knee, cancer, or injuries from falling | Participant 3: As I told you I busted my ACL tendon. When you do that then you can walk or you can fall, and that’s what actually happened… Participant 2: When I was 50, I did soccer, but my experience was not good, I tore some tendons in my knee really badly |