Purpose & Methods The purpose of this literature review was mainly to find a program very similar to my group project which the behavior change that we are targeting is physical activity in college students. In this review of the program it neither has to work or not work, but just has to be evaluated. Overall, it will help me move forward with my project on seeing what could actually work and what can’t work. Learning from the success or failures of other programs is the best way to increase the success of your own programs/projects. The goal is to build off of others and make it 100% more effective. The way I went about choosing an article appropriate for this literature review was going online to the “http://library.wcsu.edu/” website …show more content…
There were a total of number of 1,567 participants, (39% male / 61% female) (Sailors et al, 2010). TIGER’s focus was to have these participants exercise regularly 3-day/week and those who stood with the plan were given college credits as a replacement of a class as compensation for being a part of the study. The design of TIGER was to study genes related to adiposity and metabolism, but what I am focusing on this in this study is their ability to get students to work and have high retention rates. There are five different cohort years used in this intervention that all completed a 30 week exercise program plan in a diverse college-age individual’s population. The setting of the intervention took place on campus at the University of Houston’s exercise training …show more content…
The exercise lessons usually last a minimum of 40 minutes, it would include a 5-minute warm-up, 30-minute workout, and 5-minute cool down. This is only the minimum the participants have to do, so better overall results can be shown if the participants do more than the bare-minimum. The subjects had their own choices to perform aerobic exercise: stationary cycling, elliptical stepping, treadmill or track running/walking, stair stepping, rowing, or arm ergometry (Sailors et al, 2010). The staff members of this study recorded exercise mode for every session by observing and documenting the data using a handheld computer. TIGER even decided to partner up with CSI Software to make it possible to provide an online activity-logging program where the subjects were able to record exercise preformation outside of the original class time. The CSI program even included an area in the program were staff members were allowed to follow the patterns of the subjects exercise patterns inside and outside the study class times for every single subject. Since this study is a replacement for another college course and credit is being given to all participants who complete the course the only main policy given is, to make sure to come to the lessons so data can be