Adherence factors by Brad David
Adherance factors are things that get in the way of your training.
Cost
Cost can also be a adherence factor because if you’re a student you have no money for a gym membership or equipment. Also if you’re an O.A.P because the average pension is £12,151 for a typical salary earning worker. The national average earning per week is £538 for male and £439 for female an average gym membership is £360 a year or £30 a month. In a year a male on average income is going to earn £25824 then minus average living fee (food, water, electric, gas and rent), which is £10920, which makes it £14904 to spare, then we are in a credit crunch so luxury items go which includes gym membership. This wasn’t a problem for us as we didn’t need any money for facilities because they were all provided for us in school and we don’t have to pay any bills. But you can overcome this barrier if you have the intrinsic motivation to do runs down the park or track and do sit-ups and press-ups or a session of circuit training in your house.
Personality
This is a adherence factor because if you have a shy personality and you don’t want people seeing you train because your probably self-conscious of your weight or if you feel silly doing the certain training e.g. P.N.F stretching because you don’t want any one touching you. Some people prefer to train with a partner for self protection or for a boast in confidence or prefer to do things on their own (perfectionist, loner) This didn’t affect me that much but I did prefer to train with someone for the boast in confidence. You can overcome this by going to a facility that all your friends go to and train in a big group.
Access
This is an adherence factor because if you can’t get to a gym or a park or room in your house to carry out the training session then it prevents you from training. Also access to specialist facilities like high diving boards for high jumpers then you can’t carry out your training. This didn’t affect us because we had access to all the facilities we needed in the school like the halls and the field. You can overcome this by using the most of the facilities you have got.
Other Commitments
If you have other commitments like jobs, schoolwork (assignments), family (single mum).
These can be barriers because if you have a long job like my dad he works from 7a.m. to 7-8p.m. so he has no time to train some nights. Also your schoolwork can affect the way you train because if you have an essay to be in for the Friday and its Monday your going the miss a couple of sessions to get it finished and you have to do it around school times but that didn’t affect me because we done training sessions in school. If you’re a single mum bringing up a child of 2 years old, the baby not in school yet and the baby is not allowed in the gym but you can overcome it by giving it to a baby sitter or family to look after this one didn’t affect me either.
