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In It Together: A Qualitative Evaluation of Participant Experiences of a 10-Week, Group-Based, Workplace HIIT Program for Insufficiently Active Adults

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Kinnafick, Florence-Emilie, Thøgersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie, Shepherd, Sam O., Wilson, Oliver J., Wagenmakers, Anton J.M., Shaw, Christopher S.·2018·Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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Using guidance from the reach, efficacy, adoption, implementation, and maintenance evaluation framework, we aimed to qualitatively evaluate the participant experiences of a workplace high-intensity interval training (HIIT) intervention. Twelve previously insufficiently active individuals (four males and eight females) were interviewed once as part of three focus groups. Perceptions of program satisfaction, barriers to and facilitators of adherence, and persistence to exercise were explored. HIIT initiates interest because of its novelty, provides a sense of accomplishment, and overcomes the barriers of perceived lack of time. The feeling of relatedness between the participants can attenuate negative unpleasant responses during the HIIT sessions. HIIT, in this workplace setting, is an acceptable intervention for physically inactive adults. However, participants were reluctant to maintain the same mode of exercise, believing that HIIT sessions were for the very fit.

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  • The built environment, including infrastructure, access to active spaces, healthy food and cost, were common barriers across interventions.

    “The built environment, including infrastructure, access to active spaces, healthy food and cost were common barriers across interventions [27, 31, 37, 40, 41, 44, 45, 57, 58, 61].”

    From Barriers and facilitators to diet, physical activity and lifestyle behavior intervention adherence: a qualitative systematic review of the literature (2023) · cites this paper as [44]

    The Introduction identifies unsuitable physical environments as a barrier to exercise, and ‘Assessing Intervention Context’ reports that proximity to work made the HIIT sessions easier to attend. The paper does not establish that infrastructure, access to active spaces, healthy food, and cost were common barriers across interventions; it evaluates one workplace program. The supplied copy gives no page number for those sections. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Kinnafick, F.-E., Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C., Shepherd, S. O., Wilson, O. J., Wagenmakers, A. J. M., & Shaw, C. S.
Affiliations
  • Loughborough University (GB)
  • Curtin University
  • Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
  • Leeds Beckett University (GB)
  • Deakin University (AU)
Corresponding author
Kinnafick, Florence-Emilie
Venue
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Published
2018-02
Volume
40
Issue
1
Pages
10-19
ISSN
  • 0895-2779 (ISSN-L)
  • 1543-2904
OpenAlex
W2791664154
Cited by
40
References
55
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1
FWCI
2.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Locations
  • Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Leeds Beckett Repository (Leeds Beckett University) (acceptedVersion)
  • Liverpool John Moores University (acceptedVersion)
  • Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • eSpace (Curtin University) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Loughborough University Research Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
Keywords
high-intensity interval training, workplace exercise intervention, group exercise, physical inactivity, exercise adherence, exercise persistence, perceived barriers and facilitators, participant satisfaction, relatedness, exercise maintenance
MeSH terms
High-Intensity Interval Training, Adult, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Motivation, Patient Compliance, Social Support, Exercise, Patient Satisfaction, Workplace

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