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Frost, R, Lowe, A and Pinto Pereira, SM (2023) “It Makes You Feel Alive and Younger…but It’s Stressful …My Back and Legs Ache”: A Focus Group Study Encouraging Resistance Training Around Retirement. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 43 (1). ISSN 0733-4648
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Abstract
Muscle weakness is a key component of age-related conditions such as sarcopenia and frailty. Resistance training is highly effective at preventing and treating muscle weakness; however, few adults meet recommended levels. Retirement may be a key life-stage to promote resistance training. We carried out a virtual focus group study to explore motivators and barriers to resistance training around the time of retirement, with the aim of determining strategies and messages to increase its uptake. The five focus groups (n = 30) were recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed. We found that resistance training was positively viewed when associated with immediate and long-term health and wellbeing benefits and had a social dimension; but there was a lack of understanding as to what constitutes resistance training, the required intensity level for effects; the role of pain; and the consequences of muscle weakness.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | exercise; qualitative; resistance training; retirement; sarcopenia; 1103 Clinical Sciences; Gerontology |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | Nursing & Allied Health |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2023 17:01 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Dec 2023 17:15 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1177/07334648231193562 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22026 |
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