Predictors of Exercise Compliance: Strategies to Improve Adherence to Exercise Programs presents a detailed overview of the factors that affect exercise compliance. The DVD also reviews a series of practical strategies for increasing the level of participant compliance.
Among the topics covered:
Among the topics covered:
- Predictors of compliance:
- socioeconomic
- physical/biological
- psychological
- characteristics of the exercise program
- Strategies to improve compliance:
- coordination of time of day the exercise program is offered
- reinforcement during or shortly after the participant's behavior by the instructor
- stimulus control whereby participants are encouraged to make use of cues
- cognitive strategies
- behavioral contracting
