PERCEIVED EXERCISE BENEFITS AND BARRIERS AMONG STAFF AND STUDENTS OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN ADAMAWA STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Participation in exercise has remained an important behavioural lifestyle for promoting and maintaining recreational experience, social and psychological wellbeing, and physical health. Exercise has become so important globally that it has increasingly attracted the interest of many governments of the world (Daskapan, Tuzun & Eker 2006). As a result, participation in many countries of the world has been made mandatory (El Ansari & Phillips 2004). Also, in many establishments such as in industries and schools, certain periods are set out to enable workers or students participate in exercises of their choice (El Ansari & Lovell, 2009). Exercise is any form of physical activity that is specifically planned, structured and repetitive such as weight training, tai chi, or an aerobics class, (Sofi, Capalbo, Cesari, Abbate & Gensini, 2008). Exercise is an activity that gets one's body moving which enables the respiratory organ to undergo some physiological changes (National Institute of Health...