1.1.2 Influences on your healthy, active lifestyle Flashcards
What are the key influences that have an impact on a sustained involvement in physical activity?
- people
- Image
- Culture
- Resources
- Health and well being
- Socio-economic
What kinds of people influence wether someone does a sport?
- Family
- peers
- role models
Why would family influence which sport people do?
- 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
Why would peers influence which sport people do?
- 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
Why do role models influence which sport people do?
- 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.
What kinds of images influence which sports people do?
- Fashion
- Media
Why does fashion influence which sports people play?
- 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
What are the 4 main types of media?
- Newspaper and magazines
- Internet
- TV
- Radio
Why does TV influence which sports people play?
- Companies like SKY have to bid for the rights to show sporting events
- The more popular the sports the more expensive the rights
Why does Radio influence which sports people play?
- It has broadcasts covering sporting events
- It has access to ALL sporting events
- Has several channels devoted to sport
Why do newspapers and the press influence which sports people play?
- 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
Why does Internet influence which sports people play?
- 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
What are the cultural influences?
- Age
- Disability
- Culture
- Race
- Gender
What sorts of facilities do leisure centres need to provide for disabled people?
- Ramps
- Stair lifts
- Changing areas
- Toilets
What is being done to increase the amount of facilities for disabled people in leisure centres?
- Sports for all campaign encourages all to participate in sport.
- funding is often given to provide disabled facilities.
What should be done to make all races feel welcome at leisure centres?
- Sports centres should publicly display clear intentions for preventing racism
- Having people from all backgrounds be involved in coaching or in some other way
Why is it important to have age restrictions on some sports?
Safety and fairness
What have been set up for young children?
Schools and local clubs for all different age groups
What have been set up for the elderly?
Sports clubs cater for the elderly in off peak hours. Also tournaments have even been set up for elderly people.
Why are there constraints at clubs for certain genders?
- Lack of participants
- Lack of facilities
- Lack of qualified coaches
What resources have an impact on sustained involvement in sport?
- Access
- Availability
- location
- Time
Why is access important?
- 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
What are the questions associated with availability?
- Are there enough people located available to use the new facility
- Will people be available for sustained use of a new facility
