PE - 1.1.2 - Influences on your healthy, active lifestyle

• People - family, peers, role models
• Image - fashion, media
• Cultural - age, disability, gender, race
• Resources - availability, location, access, time
• Health and wellbeing - illness, health problems
• Socio-economic - cost, status

People:

• influenced by others
• people tend to choose the same activities as their friends or family
• parents introduce you to particular sport
• negative influence from family - they may expect you to take up a sport you don't particularly like just because the rest of the family plays it

• Role model - someone who is looked up to and admired for what they have achieved personally and/or professionally
• influence participation and lifestyle choices (e.g. haircut and clothes)
• they do not have to be players - they are still role models because of their succession

Image:

• sports clothing often worn as a fashion item, regardless of participation
• e.g. football/rugby shirts, sports shoes, track bottoms, hoodies, baseball hats
• sports fall in and out of fashion during different times of the year - sporting seasons, weather, media coverage
• media popularizes sports

Cultural factors:

• Cultural influences are those that impact on daily life and are often out of a person's control
• age - age limits, less concern for image, health problems
• disability - facilities have adapted equipment, special coaching for adapted sport, problems with access (wheelchair ramps)

Gender:

• most sports available to both sexes
• each sex competes seperately for safety reasons
• public perceptions - girl hesitates to play football as media…