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Descriptive assessment of exercise program on fitness and correlates of participation
Angela Baldwin Lanier1, Erica Marie Jackson, John Azar-Dickens
1Berry College, Department of Kinesiology, Mount Berry, GA, USA. alanier@berry.edu
Objective:
To assess health-related fitness, physical activity correlates, and completion of a half-marathon using a 3-day training program in a college community.
Methods:
26 volunteers participated in a 20-week, half-marathon training program.
Results:
All participants completed the half-marathon. Positive changes in health-related fitness and psychological correlates associated with future exercise participation were observed.
Conclusions:
Incorporating strategies that address physical activity correlates and barriers may increase adherence to a program with a challenging goal such as training for a half-marathon. A low-frequency program was sufficient for increasing health-related fitness and psychological factors related to exercise participation of campus community.
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