Muscle gains and emotional strains: Conflicting experiences of change among overweight women participating in an exercise intervention program

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 466-480

  Sabiston, Catherine M ^a   McDonough Meghan H , M H ^b   Sedgwick Whitney A , W A ^c   Crocker Peter R E , P R E ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exercise; Obesity; Phenomenology; Self; Weight management; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PERSONAL APPEARANCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WELLBEING; WOMEN'S HEALTH; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SHIP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPORT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OVERWEIGHT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SHIPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPORTS;

EID: 67149086802     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732309332782     Document Type: Article

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