Research On The Group Behavior Of Fitness Walking In Xu Zhou

With its high popularity and participation of the citizens, fitness walking has become one of the major public body-building methods. Because of the large number and the long development history, fitness walking communities in Xuzhou show its powerful vitality and sustainable development potential. Using comprehensive methods from literature, questionnaire, case analysis to field survey and taking fitness walking group behaviors in Xuzhou as the research object, this paper analyzes the current situation and relative behaviors of fitness group in Xuzhou and builds the Xuzhou fitness walking group motivation development model. The main conclusion of the study are as follows:(1) The current situation of fitness walking in Xuzhou: the most participators are the elderly; and the proportion of women is slightly higher than that of men in all participators. The first motivation for fitness walking exercise group is health motivation followed by ability motivation and social motivation; most of people exercised 5 to 6 times in a week; fitness walking groups have a harmonious interpersonal relationship and hold high tolerance attitude to new members. The west bank of Yun long Lake which became a free and open fitness walking site is suitable for fitness walking exercise.(2) The fitness walking group behaviors in Xuzhou: The openness is reflected in the acceptation to the new members, the dissemination of community information and exercise areas; the far from equilibrium state shows up to the imbalance of the number of participators; non-linear behaviors manifest in the formation of exercise culture and the individual input- output nonlinear in fitness walking; competitive performances are population size and exercise space competition; cooperative behaviors are reflected in the collaborative promotion of fitness walking and the collaborative activities between different groups. With the lower social network density value, fitness walking groups do not have closely connections; a part of individuals have a centrality index with upper points out and in rates in the groups and plays an intermediary role in the group interpersonal communication; central potential within the group generally is not high and the relationships within the group is relative equal. There are micro-communities in the fitness walking participators.(3) The Xuzhou fitness walking group motivation development model: the fitness walking culture is the reference value which dominates the development of fitness walking at macro level. In the open external environment, because of collaborate participation motivation the individuals participate the exercise and set up fitness groups; good interpersonal relationships within groups further promote the development of the exercise groups. The group cooperation and competition synergistically create the fitness walking culture while this culture dominates and controls the development of fitness walking.