The Function Research Of Fitness Route With Regional Features In The Development Of Mass Sports

The experimental work of Chongqing National Fitness Trail Program, after three years' development, has formed a systematic and scientific mode in its content, organization, and exploration. This paper mainly analyzes the functions of fitness route with regional features in the development of mass sports, explores subjective and objective factors of local residents choosing and using trails for fitness, fills the gap of studies on fitness route with regional features, in order to provide references for similar mountainous regions and the development of mass sports.Through the frequently employed research methods such as document, surveys, interviews and mathematical statistics, this dissertation starts from a brief introduction to the related government policy in Chongqing, the goals, and design principles of the Trail Program, and the main types of trails in the urban areas. Then the functions of fitness route with regional features in the development of mass sports are analyzed from several aspects:(1) citizens'motivation, participation and the forms they chose;(2) the trails'comprehensive value, adaptability for people of all ranks and classes, fitting for Exercise Adherence Theory, and its sound development trend. Furthermore, some suggestions are proposed for some existing problems in the development of the trail. This dissertation reaches the following conclusions:The trail could provide citizens with various options for participation. They are free to choose the activity they like. There are individual, family, and free-style activity, which draw and encourage more people to participate in mass sports. This is because people are having a growing interest in tails that makes them keep exercises consciously with inner power.In the aspect of content, exercises in trails has been integrated with traffic, tourism, communication, the coordination of urban and rural sports, and culture, having shown how important the integrated value of mass sports is. In fitness routes with regional features, people could improve the physique, relax and resolve emotional tension, eliminate fatigue, enjoy sports and life, communicate with each others, and feel the benefits of regional culture directly.In the aspect of coverage, trails could meet the sports need of people of all sexes, ages and social backgrounds, especially vulnerable groups in mass sports. The unbalanced development of sports exists in different sexes, ages and social classes in China. Women, the aged and countryman are conceived as vulnerable parts among these classes. While in fitness routes with regional features, the influence of sex, age, profession, social status, and income is less. The development of this kind of fitness route can enlarge the channels and opportunity for vulnerable groups'participating in sports, and convince them of the positive attitude towards life.In the aspects of effects, tails are fitting for Exercise Adherence Theory. Whether people will keep exercises or not depends on the surrounding environment, individual differences and people's psychological state. In the circumstances that people is not bound by social regulation, the fact that trails have provided the low risk, good atmosphere, and opportunities to improve the exercise ability, is enhancing trails'competitiveness, and makes people increase personal investments in sports of their will; it is beneficial to strengthen their need and motivation of exercises, and effects of the exercises; it is improving their self-confidence for long-term exercises indirectly. Finally, it would make mental sport commitment, and form exercise adherence intent.Trails show the inevitable trend in development of mass sports. The socialization performances in the transformation of mass sports'development is from personalization to service-oriented. The comprehensiveness is embodied in that exercises in trails are integrated with traffic, tourism, communication, the coordination of urban and rural sports, and culture. The scientization consists in that the trails'design is on the basis of scientific planning, and rational distribution, aims for offering people more effectively guidance and services. The quality comes through that people should have combatant spirit, the sense of fair play and the responsibility for environment while mountaineering. The outdoor trend is manifested in that trails provide people with more opportunities and possibilities back to nature. The lifelong trend found expression in that trails is more desirable for Exercise Adherence Theory than ordinary fitness route, which helps people keep exercises actively, and is an important step in raising their consciousness about lifelong exercise.