2023, Vol. 10, Issue 4, Part D

It is clear that woman's to enter field of fitness after inactivity that afflicted her as a result of little muscular effort that she makes in her work today and high number of women who are obese as a result of reducing muscular effort, which made her based on practicing physical fitness in order to reduce weight or alleviate percentage of fat in body or to collect lost agility and beautify textures, as it seeks to achieve itself by exercising sports and restoring balance to her body, but re is a society that often rejects women's practice of sports activities. ability to socialize if they are associated with societal problems for women to practice sports activities come As a result of interaction of personal and environmental factors of conservative Iraqi society, which sometimes objects to societal values and standards, as women's exercise of sports activist was not within a long period of time until after fall of regime and opening way to fitness and fitness centers to practice work. Researchers used descriptive approach in field of field survey, whose suitability was nature of research problem, and researchers chose two samples for building community empowerment scale according to obstacles to Basrah women's participation in women's sports centers in Basrah Governorate and second to apply this scale to research sample and determine levels. Scale was applied to sample building sample and sample application of question scale and most important recommendations were:

1.Adopting scale to measure societal empowerment according to obstacles, participation of Basrah women in slimming and sporting fitness centers in Basrah Governorate, from and towards practice of sports activity.

2.Conducting comparative studies between athletes on basis of gender, age and experience.