Factors and barriers to adherence to exercise for a military university personnel and their relationship with their attitude toward sport

The present study was designed to describe the factors and barriers to adherence to exercise in a military academy and their relationship with general staff's attitude toward sport.
This descriptive correlation study has been conducted as a survey. For this purpose Sport Motivation Scale (SMS), Barriers to Sport Participation Questionnaire, and Canyon's Attitude toward Physical Activity questionnaires (ATPA), was distributed among 110 male employees. Data analysis was performed through applying SPSS.
The results showed that Inner motivation exercise in more than external motivation . Lack of resources, not enough time, unaccompanied, lack of access to facilities, personal problems, lack of interest and lack of knowledge, were the most frequent barriers to participation in sports, respectively. Health and fitness, social growth, catharsis, vertigo, aesthetic and ascetic, were factors influencing the attitude toward exercise. Significant correlations were found among factors motivating participation and attitudes toward sport, and the barriers to participation. However, no correlation was found between participation motivations and barriers.
It seems that impoving attitude toward exercise would be the step with priority on general staff’s participation in sport and exercise.