Therefore, to integrate exercising as a part of daily life, it should preferably take place in regular local exercise facilities under guidance from physical activity professionals, but outside the health care setting.
Increased physical activity outside of class is encouraged by suggesting enrollment in additional local exercise classes, providing safe outdoor walking routes, and alerting women to activity resources online and on FitTV.
Other barriers to physical activity exist in people with type 2 diabetes, including lack of social support, lack of knowledge of the types of exercise to perform, health problems, pain/difficulty taking part in exercise, lack of local exercise facilities, and aversion to exercising in poor weather (12).
It was found that even a 2-min bout of local exercise resulted in a sustained increase in insulin-stimulated glycogen synthesis in skeletal muscle post-exercise (De Haan et al. 2002).
If decisionmakers treat this project as no more than a local exercise in economic development, goosed up by fatuous public relations, they will be weighed in the scales and found wanting, for as long as history sustains a regard for truth.
Another facilitating factor was the collaboration with municipality in the form of local exercise coaches.
Also local fitness centres (28%%) and life style counsellors (21%%) were frequently involved in collaboration, but other local exercise providers were hardly mentioned (11 %).
A recent review identified numerous barriers to exercise for people with type 2 diabetes, including unmet needs for social support, lack of knowledge of the types of exercise to perform, pain/difficulty taking part in exercise, and lack of local exercise facilities (12).
To increase PA and to contribute to sustainable changes in PA, participants were coached to increase PA in daily life and referred to local exercise facilities during the intervention.
