About Us
AccountibiliBuddies is a free resource for UVA students, staff and faculty that helps you find a workout partner to help hold you accountable for your personal fitness goals. We also offer free video tutorials and resources to help you inspire and motivate others to achieve their personal fitness goals.
SOCIAL SUPPORT
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As an AccountabiliBuddy, you offer your partner social support through facilitation and reinforcement of physical activity.
Social facilitation can enhance individual performance through observation and coaction. Simply being present can foster drive or motivation in your partner and within yourself.
Social reinforcement provides support through verbal praise, correction or criticism. Research points to social reinforcement providing motivational effects.
MOTIVATION
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Motivation to exercise involves both the direction and intensity of one's effort. Individuals may be extremely motivated or unmotivated to exercise. Motivation can also be categorized as intrinsic (from within) or extrinsic (from outside sources).
It is important to have a good amount of self motivation when approaching exercise, but AccountabiliBuddies provides a way for people who lack intrinsic motivation to exercise, to become extrinsically motivated to do so.
We will pair you up with someone who get you motivated to meet your own fitness goals!
IDENTITY
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Maybe exercise is a part of your identity. Maybe it's not. AccountabiliBuddies seeks to help you develop your own "Exercise Identity."
Through regular physical activity, encouragement from your Buddy, and continual positive experiences AccountabiliBuddies can help you integrate physical activity into your daily life.
Over time, you will find that you may no longer need your buddy.