BACKGROUND Based on the Self-determination theory process model, this study aimed to explore relationships between the latent constructs of psychological need satisfaction, autonomous motivation and exercise behaviour; the mediational role of autonomous motivation in the association of psychological need satisfaction with exercise behaviour; as well as gender and age differences in the aforemen...

objective(s) the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobics, pilates exercises and low calorie diet on leptin levels and some lipid profiles and anthropometric factors in sedentary women. materials and methods forty six women (age 36.41±3.47) were recruited and divided into four groups: aerobic exercise group (ex), pilates exercise group (pilates), low calorie diet (lcd) and c...

Exercise is recommended as a first-line conservative intervention approach for osteoarthritis (OA). A wide range of exercise programs are available and scientific evidence is necessary for choosing the optimal strategy of treatment for each patient. The purpose of this review is to discuss the effectiveness of different types of exercise programs for OA based on trials, systematic reviews, and ...

Online exercise communities play an important role in their users’ self-health management. The willingness of users to interact and create user-generated content online reflects the vitality community positive impact it has on offline health performance. Therefore, based social capital theory, we study relationship between three types behaviors add off-topics model. We select KEEP user group as...

Abstract Exercise addiction is a term used to describe dysfunctional exercise behavior characterized by the classic symptoms of addictions, which eventually result in physical, psychological, or social harm affected individual. While well over 1000 peer-reviewed papers on problematic have been published, very few studies explored conceptual differences between team-based and individual-based ex...