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EXERCISE SERVICES AVAILABILITY ASSOCIATION WITH YOUNG ADULTS' LEISURE TIME PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND PERSONAL HEALTH
Saulius Sukys, Vida Janina Cesnaitiene, Lauras Grajauskas, Rasa Kreivyte

ABSTRACT. The article deals with the exercise service, environment and adult people leisure time physical activity and personal health. It aims to analyse the association of young adults' leisure time physical activity with exercise services availability and exercising environment in neighbourhood. Secondly, study aims to analyse association between adults' personal health and availability of exercise services. Cross-sectional survey research was applied in this study. Research sample included 908 university students between 18 and 24 years old (36.6% female). The study revealed that young adults are more keen to be active physically if they have possibility to exercise free of charge Although, more than every second adult indicates the existing conditions for an outdoor physical activity near their residential place, however, this is not related to their leisure time physical activity and health condition that is estimated subjectively. Thus this research allows stating that in order to increase physical activity among young people, public services, while installing an attractive environment of physical activity near residential places, are not enough .

KEYWORDS: exercise environment, exercise services, physical activity, personal health, young adult.

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