What is the experience like for adolescents with obesity living in Oakland, CA who have joined a gym for six months to increase physical activity but were not successful?

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ABSTRACT

The research problem targets the exploration of experience and as to how it's like for adolescents with obesity living in Oakland, CA who have joined a gym for six months to increase physical activity but were not successful. This is important due to the fact that obesity and being overweighed is something which is extremely common among the people in the United States. This is a barrier between healthy living and being the individual one has to be in order to become a person of life and constitutional elements of wellbeing. The research questions to be identified for the purpose usually focus about elements such as importance of obesity elimination, techniques and strategies to evolve in terms of physical capabilities and implications of obesity through which there are multiple issues arising within different parts of the world. The methodology that has identified different means of calculations was dependent upon interpersonal and environmental barriers in the city of Oakland, CA who have joined a gym for about six month. These physical activities not being successful for a considerable amount of time is related to the socioeconomic standard of multiple people and their activity situations in different circumstances. Data analysis is carried through specific settings stating the individuals that joined the procedures and went through strenuous workout routines along with some other practices of regular and irregular kinds. Focusing the study on the topics such as causes, reasons and background of obesity, this research concludes the characteristically approached methods are not as fulfilling without the overall considerations of weight loss regime and the remedies which should ...