From Excuses to Enthusiasm: Boosting Senior Fitness Participation and Retention

About this course

Fitness and wellness professionals play a crucial role in overcoming barriers and boosting motivation for individuals to start and maintain exercise programs. Older adults face unique challenges, both real and perceived, in engaging with fitness activities. This presentation will explore how the physiological response to training may work in a bidirectional relationship with consistency and progress. Finally, the presentation will provide strategies Medical Fitness Centers can use to increase participation, foster consistency and build habits that shift residents' members mindsets from “I don’t have time, to "I can’t miss this."

What you will learn

• Understand human motivation and barriers for participation in exercise
• Explore how the physiological response to training may work in a bidirectional relationship with consistency and progress
• Discover both physical and psychological methods by fitness and wellness professionals can increase consistency in participation

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