COMMUNITY SPORTS CENTER

Community Sports Center

Community Sports Center

Introduction

Waltham Forest is an English county in the county of Greater Britain and has 218,341 inhabitants. Waltham Forest offers many facilities for sporting and leisure activities. Following are a few community centres, you can choose one amongst them harrow leisure centre in UK Waltham forest leisure centre UK Waltham forest: Leyton leisure lagoon Waltham forest pool and track (Booth, 2000,, 15).

In the visit of England, we have find over 500 hotels in London. In June, July and August there is usually consistently good weather and it rains constantly during these months, and winter is no longer what it once was. Waltham forest is located in the temperate climate zone of UK. Summers are warm but rarely hot, the winters are indeed cool, but the temperature rarely drops below freezing. London extends about 45 kilometres along the navigable river Thames and is an average of 15 meters above sea level. In 2012 London will host the Olympic Games. Even now, most sports facilities are built ready. The swimming competitions will take place in the Aquatics Centre.

This study investigated the processes associated with the engagement of adults aged 70 years and older in a 12-month long research-based structured exercise programme. A sample of 21 participants (Mean age (SD) 75.8 (3.9); 14 females) and six exercise class leaders or researchers involved in the programme participated in individual semi structured interviews. Transcripts were analysed with the principles of interpretive qualitative analysis. Our findings suggest that a programme that runs locally, provides individual attention/tailoring, delivers meaningful benefits, offers a staged approach to efficacy building, creates a sense of ownership, and provides intergenerational support and opportunities for social interaction, facilitates exercise engagement in later life (Brawley, 2003,, 172).

Background

A wealth of evidence has established the multiple physical and mental health benefits of physical activity (PA) for men and women over the age of 65. This is the least physically active age group and in the UK, 52 per cent of men and 61 per cent of women in the 65-74 age groups are inactive. Among people aged 75 and above only 7 per cent of men and 4 per cent of women reach current PA recommendations. Engaging older people in physical activity and helping them to maintain an active lifestyle is therefore a significant public health issue. A common form of physical activity provision for older people is the community or leisure centre based group exercise programme. Adherence to group-based programmes can be as high as 84 per cent. However, there is little evidence to indicate that such rates are achieved in long-term programmes (= 1 year) even though this is necessary for sustained health benefit. Dishman (2008) stressed that the factors predicting physical activity adoption may be different to those required for longer-term physical activity adherence (Brawley, 2003,, 172).

Physical activity and health researchers have conceptualized the influences on PA participation as intrapersonal, interpersonal and environmental (King, 2001; Sallis & Owen, ...