Subtheme	Study	Direct participant data	Author description of data
Everyday activities versus structured exercise programs	Hendry 2006	"Day‐to‐day activity isn't enough to keep you mobile." p.562. "There's a basic level of exercise that I have to do to keep the joints flexible, so I can get up and move around." p.562. "I get enough exercise leading an active life." p.562.	There was a broad range of opinion as to the appropriate level of exercise. Some people felt that keeping active was sufficient; other people that this was insufficient. p.563.
	Moody 2012	"Exercise in water, it's not like walking or running…you're not jarring any limbs or bones…And for old people I'm, I'm not sure (land‐based exercise) is the best sort of exercise that you could do." (p.66).	Participants were of the opinion that exercise in water was superior to other forms of exercise for them. They talked of other types of exercise they had tried and how land‐based exercise caused pain whereas water‐based exercise did not. p.66.
	Petursdottir 2010	"And I think that it is important when people choose which exercises to do, that you enjoy it, that you feel it is rewarding…these positive factors have to be present." p.1020.	The participants described the importance of suitable exercise…the importance of finding an enjoyable training mode. p.1020.
	Thorstensson 2006	"I really don't think that I need to take some exercise but I just tell myself that I am going shopping and things like that." p.55. "I try to walk more and more, to walk in the correct way and to climb stairs in the correct way and not to wear myself out." p.54. "Well, with respect to time, I try to be out for at least half an hour and then I try to go for a longer walk at the weekend, perhaps for up to an hour." p.55.	The informants described their need to exercise. The statements ranged from conceptions about the importance of exercise in order to maintain physical functioning, to the fact that daily living demands movement. p.55.