Influences on Your Lifestyle

Many Factors Affect the Physical Activity You Do

CHIPS R

C- Cultural- Age, gender, race and disability

H- Health and wellbeing- Any illness or health problems can affect the activity you do

I- Image- Whether an activitiy's fashionable or gets a lot of media coverage

P- People- Your family, peers and role models

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

R- 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 get to experience it otherwise. This encourages participation.
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