Access to facilities matters most

Another study out of Courneya's group in Alberta, Canada. They tried to figure out what factors determined whether people completed their exercise sessions across a whole year. The 2 biggest factors? What city they were from, which basically means how close they were to the University where the study was conducted. I can easily believe that, considering that I have only 27% of the women who ask me about my program, and the majority of them cite that Fremantle is too far to drive to as their reason for not joining.

J Phys Act Health. 2011 Sep 13. [Epub ahead of print]

Predictors of Adherence to Supervised and Unsupervised Exercise in the Alberta Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Prevention Trial.

Courneya KS, Karvinen KH, McNeely ML, Campbell KL, Brar S, Woolcott CG, McTiernan A, Ballard-Barbash R, Friedenreich CM.