Table 7 Framework Matrix for Barriers and Enablers
| Participant # | Self-reported barriers | Senior fitness |
Pre-post steps | Intensity | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Participant 2 Age 74 BMI 30.4 Male |
Uncomfortable in fitness facility Access to opportunities Suitable programs Hard to keep intensity |
Endurance: 25 Lower strength:10 Agility: 10 Upper strength:25 Balance: 3 s | 3403–3674 | 23% |
Prefers home exercise [enabler]: I don’t like changing in front of people, I can’t balance and can’t get my clothes on. I don’t want people watching that… I have had unpleasant experience with changing with people watching and me exercising Hard to keep intensity [barrier]: It's hard, it’s really boring, I was just counting, boring, easier if I had a radio program on, I organized it around radio programs, then it was easy. It's mentally hard when nothing is playing |
|
Participant 8 Age 75 BMI 34.1 Female |
Not a priority Knowledge Uncomfortable in fitness facility |
Endurance: 50 Lower strength: 25 Agility: 25 Upper strength: 24 Balance: 2 s | 5412–4008 | 9% |
Home equipment [enabler]: the materials I used were just great! I didn’t have to buy anything new… Hard to keep intensity [barrier]: Too much at once. If I just cut down and do 5-min and got do my exercises and maybe a week or two later, I add a minute and I can work up to 10 min |
|
Participant 4 Age 70 BMI 32.1 Male |
Hard to keep intensity Knowledge Access to opportunities |
Endurance: 75 Lower strength: 90 Agility: 50 Upper strength: 70 Balance: 14 s | 7129–10,952 | 79% |
Prefers home exercise [enabler]: I like doing it at home, I wouldn’t go to a gym, I never been to one in my life, I get out and I do a lot around the yard and the house… Lack of time [barrier]: If the work hadn’t had come up it wouldn’t had been a big deal… this would’ve been fun |
|
Participant 5 Age 67 BMI 33.1 Female |
Social support Suitable programs Motivation Cost Self-talk |
Endurance: 90 Lower strength: 90 Agility: 75 Upper strength: 50 Balance: 25 s | 6921–10,688 | 54% |
Convenience [enabler]: The fact that the program is all set up and it's not difficult to do on your own… we’ve got the thing [Home Steps mat], we have time, we have Alexis [AI device] for a timer… we had a backpack with a weight in it… Pain [barrier]: When I was younger, I use to go to the gym all the time, step classes etc., but now you know bad knees and feet or back and now you don’t do those kinds |