Table 2.

Selected Participant Quotations for Each Theme Identified

Theme	Quotations	Focus Group Contributing to Theme
Improved overall health and quality of life	“Well, when you exercise, all the levels get stable, like your sugar level, your blood pressure, your weight, you gain energy, to be healthy.” (Group 5, man, Spanish speaking) “Every time I work out, I feel less tired. I feel better when I exercise.” (Group 7, man, Spanish speaking) “Mobility and flexibility. I’ve got arthritis-I’ve got it bad in the knees and hips and arms and hands. If I exercise, if I do it regularly, it helps.” (Group 2, man) “Helps you live longer.” (Group 3, woman)	Groups 1-10
Motivation from family, friends, or peers	“You can talk to someone who can relate while you are walking, so that’s always helpful and nice, but there is someone who understands that you are limited too because they are as well.” (Group 3, woman) “I need to commit to someone to exercise, I don’t know why I need someone or wait for someone to do it and not do it on my own.” (Group 5, man, Spanish speaking) “Group of conversation with information, many of them, with testimonials of other patients and their experiences, regarding if the exercises have helped them and the results.” (Group 8, woman, Spanish speaking)	Groups 1-10
Limited by comorbid conditions	“I am afraid that I will have a stroke…pain in my chest, so to not feel it, I avoid exercise.” (Group 6, man) “In that case, you feel like you will die, you feel dizzy and that is why I think I will get a stroke or heart attack, but your heart is agitated, working extra to the maximum.” (Group 5, man, Spanish speaking) “I used to love to exercise but now I can’t do it. You know, I just can’t breathe right, I don’t have the energy.” (Group 2, man)	Groups 1, 2, 3, 5-7, 10
Physical environment: safety, weather, and cost	“It’s not safe to go out after 5 pm where I live.” (Group 10, woman, Spanish speaking) “In the winter, it is too cold and there is nowhere for me to exercise inside.” (Group 2, man) “I don’t have the money to go to a gym or take (exercise) classes.” (Group 1, man)	Groups 1-10
Lack of time	“I’m more tired now. I work full time and I’m doing like 10 hours a day. I’m just so worn out at the end of the day.” (Group 4, woman) “I have too much stress at work; and work takes too much of my time.” (Group 2, man) “I take care of my grandkids, I make the food, the chores of the house, I don’t have time for exercise.” (Group 8, woman, Spanish speaking)	Groups 1-10
Family as a barrier to exercise	“They are taking care of me so I don’t exercise, because I get tired and they keep telling me not to exercise.” (Group 5, man, Spanish speaking) “I tell my wife, let’s go walking and if she doesn’t want to go, I don’t go.” (Group 7 woman, Spanish speaking) “I like walking but my husband doesn’t like it and I don’t go on my own.” (Group 8, woman, Spanish speaking)	Groups 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10
Lack of exercise counseling from kidney provider	“Basically, they tell you exercise would be beneficial but nothing specific.” (Group 2, man) “My doctor has actually said nothing.” (Group 3, woman) “If I have trust with my doctor, I think he can tell me ‘if you want to see your grandkid grow, then put more energy, more motivation in exercise’.” (Group 10, woman, Spanish speaking)	Groups 1-10