I am looking for evidence to prove or disprove the theory that being a member of a gym has a positive effect on physical activity and/or physical fitness, but am struggling to find appropriate terms for searching the literature. Does anyone have any references that may be a good starting point?
Hello Julie
A good starting point to get a first answer to your question might be the following article in pubmed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16355081 [J Sports Med Phys Fitness. 2005 Jun;45(2):199-207]. Using this article as a starting point (e.g., by checking the references they used) and by checking the "Related citations in PubMed"-bar you should be able to find additional appropriate/relevant articles. From these you can then derive important key words to start building a well founded terminology for a more systematic search of the literature. You can compare these terms with the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), which is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed to improve your search even more.
Good luck and best wishes,
Eling de Bruin
Having similar trouble with finding papers and was just about to send the same paper as above. Unfortunately it is quite hard to find activity levels of gym members vs non gym members, there are not many academic studies in gyms (they do exist though). The IHRSA (http://www.ihrsa.org/) do tend to have reports but they are expensive and I haven't been able to access to them even through the British Library. Another group that may help is the EHFA (http://www.ehfa.eu.com/)
Thanks both, I shall source this paper and do further research from there.
Hello Julie.
I have been working in a paper about the attrition rates in fitness centers and have found some difficulty to seek references on the subject.
Did you find out any relevant reference? Could you please indicate them?
Thanks!
Late feedback sorry,
You can browse Kristine Newhall Ph.D. thesis from Iowa University titled: Is this working out? a spatial analysis of women in the gym, published in 2013
Good luck
Hello Julie, there is a lot of papers whose associate fitness, body composition and cognitive factors to affective responses to exercise ( Article The mysterious case of the public health guideline that is (...
,Article Self-reported tolerance influences prefrontal cortex hemodyn...
). But if we think about adherence to exercise is hard to measure if a individual is exercise adherent or non-adherent. That is, let’s suppose an individual had kept engaged in an exercise program (or in a follow-up study) for the most percentage of time, with great attendance records, ever completed stipulated bout time and got keep all intensities prescribed several times, although, this same individual when avoid or end the program (or follow-up) do not keep going active and become sedentary for months or years, and/or before start the program the same one were sedentary for months. Can we consider this individual as exercise adherent? In another example, if an individual were practiced physical exercises for all his/her life long, but never got keep engaged in a program for great periods, that is, keep on a program for 3 months and avoid for some months, try again to keep on for more 6 months and stop for a year, and keep starting and stopping several times in the course of life. Can we consider this individual as exercise adherent? So, what the factors is important to consider for judge a person adherence level?I advise when search to exercise program or gym adherence think about the feelings before the individual start the exercise (i.e. motivations to start or avoid), the feelings during exercise (i.e. affect, effort perceived), and the feelings after exercise (i.e. enjoyment).
Another paper interesting about thematic is this ( Article Review of how we should define (and measure) adherence in st...
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