Table 6 Barriers to continued participation

Long wait times during RT sessions

• “When we do the weights that time, a little bit we had to wait, a little bit down time. But I don’t think there’s another way to do it. Unless we were trained and we were told what’s the program we can do on our own, and you don’t have to wait, have the down time. Sometimes it feels a little bit long, a little bit boring. But in general I think it’s okay. But if you are in the group and somebody is really slow they drag the whole group.”

• “What I thought would have helped is if we had been grouped according to our capability. Because some of us, we’re not the same size and we’re not the same age and some people were faster… you [wouldn’t] have to change the settings as much.”

Other activity commitments

• “Yeah I probably could [continue to participate]. As long as it wasn’t in the summer because in May, June, July, August, and September I lawn bowl…and I’m getting quite good at it so I go on the odd tournament now. So that kind of takes up some of my time.”

• “In fact, I don’t mind to participate. And to be honest, I like to take part of it, but I have to know ahead of time because I don’t want to quit in the middle of the program. If I commit to something, I rather finish, to complete it, right.”