Contracting is a strategy in which

Contracting is a strategy in which the participant make an agreement which the interventionst to per form physical activity at a specified level and for a particular duration it been used by patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation and by chronically ill older adults contracting defines activity expectations for the patient and in doing so may provide motivation because patients want to also helps patients take a complex behavior and break it into manageable units whereas the idea of exercising routinely for many years may be inconceivable to a chronically ill adult walking at a moderate pace for 30 minutes on Monday Wednesday and Friday of the next week may seem feasible success in meeting previous contracts may stimulate future efforts