You want to develop a regular exercise routine, but you lack motivation. Promises to yourself are quickly broken, and you never establish enough of the workout habit to experience any rewards.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. When it comes to staying active, the biggest challenge often ...

Exercise has a lot of important benefits. But most people don’t exercise or don’t do it consistently or long enough to get those benefits. If you ask people why they dropped out of their program, I ...

If you struggle to stick to exercise, think about your values. When your exercise habits and values are aligned, it's easy to ...

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You know exercise is good for you, but your brain still resists it like it’s punishment rather than reward. The problem isn’t willpower or discipline – it’s that your neural pathways haven’t learned ...

A recent study suggests that resistance training improves exercise motivation and contributes to making exercise planning among older adults. Exercise motivation and exercise self-efficacy are key ...

We've all had those days when you know you should work out, but you have absolutely no motivation to do so. It may encourage you to hear that exercise really is super good for you. There's a mountain ...

Group exercise is very popular: Nearly 40 percent of regular exercisers participate in group fitness classes. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the American College of Sports Medicine predicted that ...