Positive Influence: Media can create an agreeable image of a sports personality by focusing on admirable aspects of the sports person. By interviewing him/her, by showing reports on his/her achievements, or by showing his/her practice session. This may create a popular image of the sports personality.

The positive effects of media in sport include: Inspiring the next generation of people to participate – Coverage of sport makes more people want to take part. i.e. Athletics and Gymnastics during the Olympics and Tennis during Wimbledon. The media can raise the profile of many sports and individual players.

Media monitors famous and political figures, which create a transparency and ensures that those remain lawful and honest. This protects sport personalities by limiting the media’s coverage on a specific view, generally negative. They should remain, respectful and fair towards the sport star.

However, games have always been made interesting and exciting by media by the constant live updates through radio and television broadcasting. Thus, without media, sports would not get a high level of exposure.

Media is playing an important role in both the construction and destruction of sporting structures and practices. The media has also helped in developing the new competitions, events and leagues. New sport forms have appeared and old ones have become of less importance.

Positive influences of the media

• Raise awareness of sport.
• Promote healthy active lifestyles.
• Showcase sport’s positive values.
• Present positive and inspiring role models.
• Motivate people to take part.
• Set high standards for performance.
• Provide examples of skills and tactics.
• Publicise a variety of sports and activities.

Media generates profit through sports while sports and its contents are transmitted through media. It is clear sports and media is developing in and expanding through this symbiotic relationship. This interdependent phenomena and symbiotic relationship can be referred as sports media.

Media coverage can encourage participation in the following ways: It increases popularity and knowledge of sports and activities by covering matches and events and interviewing experts. Interactive simulation games and apps encourage an interest in sports which may lead to greater participation.

There are a number of key factors in sports participation including gender, age, socio-economic, ethnicity and disability. There are only two key factors in sports participation which are including gender and disability.

Factors affecting personal participation in sports and tourism, including affluence, gender, stage in lifecycle, personality, place of residence.

• Affluence. We have already covered this in previous lessons – check the previous page to check on this.
• Gender.
• Life cycle stage.
• Personality.
• Place of residence.

To analyze the factors that affect participation in physical activities, the factors were categorized into health status factors including the general characteristics of the subjects, subjective happiness, stress perception, sleep satisfaction and experience of depression, and health-related behavior factors including …

Framing Physical Activity Participation In response, PA has routinely been defined as “bodily movements that result in energy expenditure” (12). Reduced opportunities may limit a child’s exposure to fundamentally important physical, social, and personal experiences for health development.

When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins interact with the receptors in your brain that reduce your perception of pain. Endorphins also trigger a positive feeling in the body, similar to that of morphine.

Personal Barriers

• insufficient time to exercise.
• inconvenience of exercise.
• lack of self-motivation.
• non-enjoyment of exercise.
• boredom with exercise.
• lack of confidence in their ability to be physically active (low self-efficacy)
• fear of being injured or having been injured recently.

Suggestions for Overcoming Physical Activity Barriers. Identify available time slots. Monitor your daily activities for one week. Identify at least five 30-minute time slots you could use for physical activity.

Here are some of the more common barriers and solutions for overcoming them:

• Barrier: Lack of time.
• Barrier: Friends and family don’t share your interest in physical activity.
• Barrier: Lack of motivation and/or energy.
• Barrier: Lack of resources/equipment.
• Barrier: Family caregiving obligations.

These range from factors related to the built environment (e.g. urban sprawl, walkability, street connectivity), neighbourhood safety, social networks, and public transportation to socioeconomic limitations as well as customs and beliefs that can influence vocational or recreational physical activity.

An environmental factor, ecological factor or eco factor is any factor, abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms. Abiotic factors include ambient temperature, amount of sunlight, and pH of the water soil in which an organism lives.

Environmental factors found to be related to physical activity in children and adolescents include greater access to recreational facilities, greater opportunities to exercise, increased time spent outside [19–21].

This article presents data on physical activity and specifically: (i) the range of opportunities to be physically active within the local environment, (ii) facilitators and barriers to being physically active, (iii) the influence of family and friends and (iv) the school environment.

Air pollution is associated with increased asthma rates and lung diseases, and an increase in the risk of premature death from heart or lung disease. Water contaminated with chemicals, pesticides, or other contaminants can lead to illness, infection, and increased risks of cancer.

The physical environment refers to the external, tangible surroundings in which an organism exists and which can influence its behaviour and development. The social environment of an individual is the culture that he or she was educated and/or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom the person interacts.

The environment can influence peoples’ behavior and motivation to act. The environment can influence mood. For example, the results of several research studies reveal that rooms with bright light, both natural and artificial, can improve health outcomes such as depression, agitation, and sleep.

There are many different factors that can affect your health. These include things like housing, financial security, community safety, employment, education and the environment.