Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Bibliography

Conclusion

So after considering all the merits and demerits of the three possible solutions, the most effective solution according to me and which does not have many and much severe demerits is solution/concept #2 i.e.

Special fitness centres or separate section in existing centres for obese people”.


Stake holder analysis



Conceptualization


I have seen miraculous examples of people becoming healthy and losing weight by playing sports. So if there could be some small-scaled or city level sports events where only overweight and obese people participate, so it would be helpful.





I researched a lot and found out that around 46% of Indians who join gyms or fitness clubs discontinue them within couple of months after joining them.

What are the possible reasons?





I researched a lot and found out that around 46% of Indians who join gyms or fitness clubs discontinue them within couple of months after joining them.
What are the possible reasons?
Now my triggers were:-
1) Loss of interest
2) Lack of motivation
These 2 factors can overshadow other reasons and can hence make them go work out.
WHY?
-      Because most of the times obese people during work out feel demotivated seeing people who already are fit working out for some other reasons like abs or something
-      They won’t be comfortable and feel awkward surrounded by fit people
-      Most fitness centres don’t have enough or enough experienced trainers so it’s difficult for them to concentrate on each individual with different purposes of coming there. Some just want body in shape, some want cardiac, some want to reduce weight, and some want to gain etc.








Many good companies like Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Twitter have very interactive, distinctive and non-sedentary workplaces. They are so interesting that people themselves don’t want to sit on a single place for 8.1 hrs. They move, they play, they slide, they jump and they work. Hence these places have very less chances of a person become obese or over weight from normal and have very high chances that an obese or over weight person becomes normal and healthy and fit.



Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Design Criteria



I tried finding answers to these questions through “latter research.
So according to study, the average Indian job working hours per day 8.1 hrs.
Now here’s the answers to first two questions,
1) By making them go through some amount of physical activity in their day.
2) There are 3 possible available slots:-
    a) Before job
    b) During job time
    c) After job
Now before job and after job time slots can be utilized by going to a fitness centre (I’ll be talking about this later)
What can be done during the job hours so that the motive of physical activity?
So here are some possible solutions to these slots which are interlinked to each other.

Specific Problem Statement


Data Analysis



So here’s the problem assessment matrix




So, by this data it comes out that sedentary lifestyle and junk food are major issues.
And I am focusing more on sedentary lifestyle because that’s the second most important cause after heredity.
According to matrix data and conclusions, sedentary lifestyle is associated a lot with two factors
1) Age
2) Type of occupation
How age is related to letharginess?
Today a large mass of children and teenagers are getting obese because of their sedentary lifestyle without any sports or any physical activity. And being surrounded by new techies, gadgets like smart phones, video games, pc games surfing and all, they prefer indoor activities more than outdoor ones. Secondly these guys are consuming a lot of food or to be precise junk food that is giving them such deadly disease so early.
How type of occupation is related to letharginess?
People who have field jobs or jobs that are not to be performed sitting at one place have rare chances of being obese. Like civil engineers, travel photographers etc.
Since my colleague was already working on age factor so I decide to work on the second option.
So it’s time for a “specific problem statement”