Adherence and physical activity

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Effect of Motivation by “Instagram” on Adherence to Physical Activity among Female College Students

“…From the above discussion it follows that adherence is a subjective characteristic that all people have in different levels and it is affected by many social and personal factors that must be considered in any situation [ 19 ]. Therefore, measuring the most important motivational factors that influence participants' behavior to engage or continue with an exercise program was the second aim of the present study.…”

Turning Back the Clock: A Retrospective Single-Blind Study on Brain Age Change in Response to Nutraceuticals Supplementation vs. Lifestyle Modifications

“…However, one has to follow such a rigorous program rather precisely on an everyday basis to achieve results beyond just the deceleration of aging, namely, the reversal of brain age, which is not easy in real life, where slowly accruing benefits may not be reaped or noticed (especially in the healthy/young) for decades to come. The difficulty of long-term compliance (which is well documented for the lifestyle changes [ 296 , 297 , 300 , 302 ]) was probably responsible for the fact that in our study only a slowdown (i.e., deceleration) of brain BA was achieved with the lifestyle intervention and not actual brain age reversal ( this is in contrast to a much shorter (eight-week) lifestyle intervention (that included diet recommendations, physical exercise, and sleep advice) study, where the systemic/organismal BA was reversed by the end of the study [ 90 ]. The duration of the trial may, in fact, contribute to this discrepancy, because it might be easier for participants to follow the intervention program accurately for a much shorter time (by comparison, our study’s intervention duration was, on average, 13 months).…”

“…Among these strategies, nutraceutical supplements, which are compounds of vitamins, minerals, and essential amino- and fatty acids, as well as plant extract isolates [ 21 , 282 ], may have further advantages ( Figure 1 ): they (i) are widely available and commonly used; (ii) they affect a highly evolutionarily conserved nutrient-sensing pathway ( this pathway regulates several key homeostatic processes, including autophagy, mRNA translation, and metabolism, each of which affects the hallmarks of aging [ 13 , 34 ] and, consequently, the lifespan [ 285 , 286 ] ) linked to aging [ 287 , 288 ]; (iii) could prevent or slow the progression of a wide variety of illnesses [ 90 , 283 , 284 ], including neurodegeneration [ 289 , 290 , 291 ]; (iv) can affect the central circadian clock in the brain via sirtuins [ 134 , 292 ], which are linked to the regulation of aging [ 9 , 177 , 293 , 294 ]; and (v) do not require as much effort to comply with recommendations, for example, committing to regular physical exercise [ 295 , 296 , 297 ] or maintaining a rigorous diet [ 298 , 299 , 300 , 301 ]. Moreover, considering that many nutraceutical compounds are mimetics of calorie restriction [ 302 ] or physical exercise [ 303 ], manipulating the dosage of such compounds could achieve stronger and faster results.…”

Women’s Involvement in Steady Exercise (WISE): Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

“…Evidence reports that the best way to combat the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle is to exercise. However, one of the great problems of sports practice is the lack of adherence [9], that is, the lack of continuity to perform some type of physical activity. Barriers to physical activity and sports participation for women include a lack of time, lack of interest or low motivational level, societal norms and expectations related to gender roles and appearance, lack of social support, fear of injury, limited access to exercise facilities or prohibitive costs of training programs, cultural norms and stereotypes and personal beliefs and attitudes, among other factors.…”