What are barriers to fitness?
Fitness routines are often important to overall health, however they are not always easy to maintain regularly with a chronic condition. Tell us: what are the barriers to your fitness routines? How do you over come those obstacles?
Exercise-related challenges might be personal (such as a lack of time, energy, or motivation), physical (such as an injury or health issues), environmental (such as expense, a lack of facilities, or bad weather), or social/emotional (such as a lack of support or a fear of being judged). The first step to reaching fitness objectives is recognizing and resolving these typical obstacles.
Thank you for joining in the conversation. Have you personally experienced any of these challenges? Have you found a way to overcome them? This topic has been covered well in an article written by one of our medical writers. All the best, Kathy (Team member)
Barriers to fitness are obstacles that make it hard to be physically active, including personal issues like lack of time, energy, and motivation; environmental factors such as a lack of safe facilities or poor weather; cost-related issues like equipment and gym fees; and psychological barriers such as fear of injury or embarrassment
Thank you for sharing! These considerations impact many people, including me! Have you found a hack to get the exercise you want to do or need? Let us know. Warmly, Kathy (Team member)
Walk little exercise walk outside have DVDs to exercise with love to walk outdoors have a peddle stationary foot bike do PT at home on my own clean up and do laundry and then put it away eventually cook my breakfast and then lunch sometime help my husband in the kitchen and with the dishwasher I stay busy from sunrise to sunset go to the y and senior center to exercise and be social and more take lots of 15-30 min breaks @
Thank you for sharing how you incorporate exercise in your busy life. Warmly, Kathy (Team member)
my barriers are mostly from my peripheral artery disease, my legs ache easily and my missing two toes really affect my balance. But, I'm grateful for what I can do.😊 
I'm sorry to hear that. What are you able to do for exercise? -Olivia
