Exercise Among Latinos

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While conducting this research, one of the two components for it, is why there’s a lack of physical exercise among the Latino community. Previous research has been done on this topic Bull et al.., 2006). That showed that Latino who are low income do have a lack of physical exercise because they’re not well informed about what type of physical exercise they can do, also a lot of them can’t afford to pay a gym membership. In addition, even if they want to do physical exercise at their home or park near home is hard because the areas they live in are not the safest that’s why they rather stay inside their home to avoid getting in trouble. There also has been other similar research like the one from (Pekmezi et al.., 2010) that want to promote

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