Influence on your lifestyle

Many factors affect the physical activity you do

Cultural- age, gender, race, disability

Health and well being- any illness or health problem can affect the activity you do

Image- whether an activity's fashionable or gets a lot of media coverage

People- your family, peers and role models

Socio-economic- can you afford to do a particular activity? What is the social status of that activity?

Resources- Do you have enough time and access to facilities to be able to do an activity?

Image can influence which activities you do:

• The media brings sport to people who may not experience it otherwise. This can encourage participation
• Media companies pay for the rights to…