1.1.2 Influences on your healthy, active lifestyle Flashcards

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What are the key influences that have an impact on a sustained involvement in physical activity?

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  • people
  • Image
  • Culture
  • Resources
  • Health and well being
  • Socio-economic
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What kinds of people influence wether someone does a sport?

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  • Family
  • peers
  • role models
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Why would family influence which sport people do?

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  • Parents own sporting experiences encourage sport on their children
  • The family may join a membership club together
  • Their could be a sport that is family tradition
  • Families also provide equipment, cover costs of taking part and taxi their children to activities
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Why would peers influence which sport people do?

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  • People of similar age may encourage each other to take part in a physical activity
  • Peer pressure may occur
  • Starting an activity with friends is less intimidating
  • going with friends is more fun
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Why do role models influence which sport people do?

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  • Role models are admired and looked up to
  • individuals try to copy sports stars
  • Sports have many role models
  • Media exposes sports stars to the public.
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What kinds of images influence which sports people do?

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  • Fashion

- Media

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Why does fashion influence which sports people play?

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  • Sports clothes are often seen as fashionable
  • Team shirts are often worn
  • Sport fashion follows trends; more football shirts are worm around the world cup
  • The activity itself may become more fashionable if a national team or individual is doing well in the big events
  • Minority sports can become more fashionable as they gain more media coverage
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What are the 4 main types of media?

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  • Newspaper and magazines
  • Internet
  • TV
  • Radio
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Why does TV influence which sports people play?

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  • Companies like SKY have to bid for the rights to show sporting events
  • The more popular the sports the more expensive the rights
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Why does Radio influence which sports people play?

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  • It has broadcasts covering sporting events
  • It has access to ALL sporting events
  • Has several channels devoted to sport
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Why do newspapers and the press influence which sports people play?

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  • back page news is usually dedicated to sport
  • It can influence an individual or even a nation. However on occasions stories can be exaggerated
  • Specialist sport magazines are also published to give readers information and news regarding current affairs
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Why does Internet influence which sports people play?

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  • The latest and the fastest provider for sports new and information
  • Millions of websites are set up for sports news
  • it is attraction for advertising through popular sports pages
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What are the cultural influences?

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  • Age
  • Disability
  • Culture
  • Race
  • Gender
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What sorts of facilities do leisure centres need to provide for disabled people?

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  • Ramps
  • Stair lifts
  • Changing areas
  • Toilets
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What is being done to increase the amount of facilities for disabled people in leisure centres?

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  • Sports for all campaign encourages all to participate in sport.
  • funding is often given to provide disabled facilities.
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What should be done to make all races feel welcome at leisure centres?

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  • Sports centres should publicly display clear intentions for preventing racism
  • Having people from all backgrounds be involved in coaching or in some other way
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Why is it important to have age restrictions on some sports?

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Safety and fairness

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What have been set up for young children?

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Schools and local clubs for all different age groups

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What have been set up for the elderly?

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Sports clubs cater for the elderly in off peak hours. Also tournaments have even been set up for elderly people.

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Why are there constraints at clubs for certain genders?

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  • Lack of participants
  • Lack of facilities
  • Lack of qualified coaches
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What resources have an impact on sustained involvement in sport?

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  • Access
  • Availability
  • location
  • Time
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Why is access important?

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  • Good facilities allows more participants
  • The more involved the higher the standard of performance
  • Good facilities and participants attracts better coaches
  • Small communities may struggle to fulfil these requirements
  • Transport provided may be the only way of accessing these facilities
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What are the questions associated with availability?

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  • Are there enough people located available to use the new facility
  • Will people be available for sustained use of a new facility