Tracking of voluntary exercise behaviour over the lifespan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of many physical activity interventions is to develop life-long habits of regular exercise and sports activities in leisure time. Previous studies that assessed tracking (i.e. the stability of a trait over the lifespan) of leisure time exercise behaviour across various parts of the life span have treated it as a uniform construct by summing all types of leisure time exercise activities into a single summary score for the total volume of exercise. This study provides new insight by additionally determining tracking across leisure time exercise activities in six different domains: (1) team-based versus solitary activities, (2) competitive versus non-competitive activities, and (3) externally paced versus internally paced activities. We also assessed which of the do

SUBMITTER: van der Zee MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6360805 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature