Barriers towards exercising for people with diabetes from the South Asian communities

In some areas, for example, I can quote Bradford in Yorkshire, I can quote Leicester and Birmingham as well. I know of some families that have got together as a group, like the ladies only group, for example, men's only group, and they do their regular walks, some once a week, some twice a week, depending on what situation they're in. And then within each group, they divide into smaller groups, so those who can walk faster, and those due to, you know, have issues and so on, can't walk that fast. So that's actually taken up quite well over the past few years I've noticed that persona whenever I go and visit my family's friends. I see, you know, groups of Asian ladies walking in the park and that really makes me happy because it's a starting point. I also know here where I live in Milton Keynes that there have been a couple of attempts at getting people to do the walk but they've, this is men's group I'm talking about now, who would walk, but they would only walk if you, at the end of the day, the reward is that we'll go to a restaurant and have a meal. But it's an incentive. And what we've tried to do with those people is to say, well, okay, if you're going to go to a restaurant, at least choose something healthy to eat if you're going to go there. But obviously, all of this was happening before the Covid situation and I think a lot of the cases now that's sort of that's something that's slowed down a bit but that's you know that trying to encourage groups of you know single gender groups if you like to to take a walk and trying to also explain that it's you know you walk at your own speed it's free doesn't cost you anything you know you go when you feel like it initially you might just want to do it once in a blue moon and but eventually if you carry on you will want to do it more often. I mean my personal case is I honestly for 20 years I have to do a minimum of 10,000 steps a day if I don't I really feel like you know it's it's more of an addiction I feel miserable so you know it does become a habit and that's something that we could I think encourage them. you