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Exercise habit formation in new gym members: a longitudinal study
Abstract
Reasoned action approaches have primarily been applied to understand exercise behaviour for the past three decades, yet emerging findings in unconscious and Dual Process research show that behavior may also be predicted by automatic processes such as habit. The purpose of this study was to: (1) investigate the behavioral requirements for exercise habit formation, (2) how Dual Process approach predicts behaviour, and (3) what predicts habit by testing a model (Lally and Gardner in Health Psychol Rev 7:S137-S158, 2013). Participants (n = 111) were new gym members who completed surveys across 12 weeks. It was found that exercising for at least four bouts per week for 6 weeks was the minimum requirement to establish an exercise habit. Dual Process analysis using Linear Mixed Models (LMM) revealed habit and intention to be parallel predictors of exercise behavior in the trajectory analysis. Finally, the habit antecedent model in LLM showed that consistency (β = .21), low behavioral complexity (β = .19), environment (β = .17) and affective judgments (β = .13) all significantly (p < .05) predicted changes in habit formation over time. Trainers should keep exercises fun and simple for new clients and focus on consistency which could lead to habit formation in nearly 6 weeks.
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In new gym members, exercising at least four bouts per week for about 6 weeks was the minimum requirement to establish an exercise habit. Habit and intention predicted exercise behavior equally over 12 weeks, while consistency, low behavioral complexity, environment, and affective judgments predicted habit formation over time.
Key findings
- Habit plateaued by week 6 (42–49 days), with 48% of the sample achieving habit formation; the SRBAI habit cut-off score was 2.80/5.
- In trajectory analysis, habit (b = .23, p = .001) and intention (b = .23, p = .007) were equivalent predictors of exercise behavior; neither was significant at baseline.
- Trajectory predictors of habit change were consistency (b = .21, p < .001), low behavioral complexity (b = .19, p < .001), environment (b = .17, p = .008), and affective judgments (b = .13, p = .003).
- High frequency (≥4 days/week) predicted habit (b = .24, p < .001), while low frequency (<4 days/week) did not (b = .09, p = .42); by week 12, 63.8% of the high-frequency group versus 22.6% of the low-frequency group had achieved habit.
Methods
- Longitudinal 12-week study of 111 new gym members (from 144 interested; 77% consented), aged 18–65, who had joined a gym/recreation centre within the past 2 weeks; surveys at baseline, week 6, week 9, and week 12.
- Measures included the Godin Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire for exercise behavior, the Self-Report Behavioral Automaticity Index for habit, an open intention item, modified Subjective Exercise Experience Scale for affective reward, and single/adapted items for consistency, environment comfort, and behavioral complexity.
- Analyses used Linear Mixed Models in SPSS 20.0, survival analysis (Kaplan-Meier), ROC analysis for habit cut-off, and tests of time × frequency interaction and habit antecedents as predictors of habit formation.
Limitations
- The paper states: there was variability in participants’ exercise history despite being new gym members; habit was assessed only at baseline, week 6, week 9, and week 12, so more frequent assessment in the first 6 weeks could better capture habit formation; the Lally and Gardner model did not specify measurement, so the study used a mixture of validated and customized items; future research should use objective measurement.
- Evident in the text: exercise behavior and habit were self-reported, and the sample was 70% female, mean age 47.7 years, mean BMI 25.8, and largely postsecondary educated, which may limit generalizability.
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“It was found that exercising for at least four bouts per week for 6 weeks was the minimum requirement to establish an exercise habit.”
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“Dual Process analysis using Linear Mixed Models (LMM) revealed habit and intention to be parallel predictors of exercise behavior in the trajectory analysis.”
- Also stated in: § Dual Process approach · p. 6 · plain
“The trajectory model found habit habit, b = .23 ( p = .001) and intention, b = .23, ( p = .007) to be equivalent in strength for predicting exercise behavior across time.”
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“The present study did not find habit or intention to significantly predict exercise behavior during baseline; however, both constructs became significant predictors over time with equal effect sizes ( b = .23, respectively) in support of our hypothesis.”
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“The baseline model did not find habit F (1, 101) = .22, p = .64; or intention F (1, 101) = .90, p = .34 to be a significant predictors of exercise.”
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“The present study did not find habit or intention to significantly predict exercise behavior during baseline; however, both constructs became significant predictors over time with equal effect sizes ( b = .23, respectively) in support of our hypothesis.”
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“The ICC intercept/(intercept + residual) = .64, suggesting that about 64 % of total variation from the antecedents was due to individual differences.”
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“The ICC value was .38, which means that 38 % of total variation from exercise was due to individual differences.”
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“Affective judgments about the exercise experience were found to be the primary predictor of habit formation at baseline but consistency became the strongest predictor in the trajectory analysis.”
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“The present study did not find habit or intention to significantly predict exercise behavior during baseline; however, both constructs became significant predictors over time with equal effect sizes ( b = .23, respectively) in support of our hypothesis.”
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“The baseline habit model found habit to significantly predict exercise F (1, 99) = 8.78, p = .004.”
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“In terms of the time required to establish an exercise habit, the present research found that exercise habit plateaued on the 6th week (42-49 days) of the study with 48 % of the sample achieving habit formation.”
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“The ICC intercept/(intercept + residual) = .76, suggesting that about 76 % of total variation from the predictors was due to individual differences.”
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“The Chi squared difference was not significant [ v 2 (1, N = 111) = 1.96, p = .37]. Thus, participants' random starting points did not significantly change the model (Field, 2009).”
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“Cut-scores for week 6, 9 and 12 were 2.52, 2.76, and 3.01 respectively which averaged a cut-off score of 2.80.”
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“The figure shows that those in the high frequency group demonstrated stability of habit scores and maintenance of habit ( C 3/5) scores across the 12 weeks.”
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“The baseline cut-off was 2.91 with a sensitivity of 0.70 and 1-specificity of .18.”
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“A quadratic polynomial for time was then used to test habit change across 12 weeks, which was found to be significant F (1, 233) = 14.96, p = .001.”
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“By week 12, the values for high and low frequency groups were 63.8 and 22.6 % respectively.”
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“Testing of random intercepts revealed that the Chi squared difference was not significant [ v 2 (1, N = 111) = .06, p = .68]. Thus, a random intercept model did not improve fit (Field, 2009).”
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“Overall, habit has demonstrated predictive validity in the physical activity domain; for example, a recent meta-analysis found it to correlate r = .43 with behavior which is similar to the magnitude of the intention-behavior relationship (Gardner et al., 2011).”
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“It has been proposed that conscious intention and unconscious processes operate parallel on behavior which is known as a Dual Process approach (see Evans, 2008 for review).”
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“Based on previous conscious rational models, social cognitive theorists propose intention to be the strongest predictor of behavior, thus suggesting intention as the primary conscious motive for behavior (Ajzen, 1991; Rogers, 1974; Rosenstock, 1974).”
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“Habit is thought to have a reciprocal relationship with behavior (Gardner, 2014), where habit affects behavioral repetition but that repetition also strengthens habit formation.”
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- Not checked yetcites Gardner, 2014
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“By contrast, research in unconscious processes have ranked habit as possibly the strongest unconscious determinant of behavior (Sheeran et al., 2013).”
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“The 2week test-retest reliability of the measures of total physical activity and the frequency of activity have been estimated to be 0.74 and 0.80, respectively (Godin et al., 1986).”
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“the researchers found that it took on average 66 days to develop a health related habit (healthy eating, drinking and exercise) among a small student sample.”
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“The present study used a mixture of previous validated scales and customized items to this model.”
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“We used a 12 week longitudinal design based on the average time required to develop habit in a prior research study (66 days) (Lally et al., 2010).”
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“Second, the habit model proposed by Lally and Gardner (2013) presents a strong case of four antecedents of habit which have individually been found to correlate with habit in various studies (Gardner et al., 2011).”
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“Hence the present finding could provide a novel approach to assess if the environment supports the development of habit.”
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“Before any analysis was conducted, the time parameters were grand mean centered to reduce multicollinearity.”
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“The internal consistencies in the present study were: baseline ( a = .80), week 6 ( a = .76), week 9 ( a = .73), and week 12 ( a = .77).”
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“It is likely that negative feelings which stem from unfavourable experiences could prompt conscious deliberation for the individual before performing the behavior.”
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“Fortunately, these findings are also aligned with public health guidelines suggesting that an exercise habit can be achieved in 4-5 bouts with 30/ 40 min per session.”
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The paper relies on this without support.
No study has examined a time by frequency effect on habit formation.
“Currently, no study has examined a time 9 frequency effect on habit formation.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The enrolment spike during the New Year followed by a large drop-out of gym members is a well-known trend but is not clearly understood.
“This was a relevant population for this study as the enrolment spike during the New Year followed by a large drop-out of gym members is a well-known trend but is not clearly understood.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The single-item measure of temporal consistency validly assesses temporal consistency of exercise.
“Temporal consistency had not been assessed in previous research at the time of the study. Hence, a measure was created to assess this construct.”
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The single-item measure of comfort in the exercise environment validly assesses environmental support for exercise automaticity.
“an item worded ''How comfortable do you feel in your exercise environment'' which was scored on a five point Likert scale (1 = not very comfortable to 5 = very comfortable) was used to assess if the environment supported the process of behavior.”
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“Kaushal and Rhodes found that exercising for at least four times per week for 6 weeks is a minimal requirement for establishing exercise habits [81].”
From Clarifying the Concept of Adherence to eHealth Technology: Systematic Review on When Usage Becomes Adherence (2017) · cites this paper as [81]
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“Kaushal and Rhodes discovered that exercising for at least 4 times a week for 6 weeks was the minimum activity to establish an exercise habit [47].”
From Opening the Black Box of Electronic Health: Collecting, Analyzing, and Interpreting Log Data (2017) · cites this paper as [47]
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- ConsistentF(1, 101) = 0.22reported p = .64 · recomputed p = .640
“F (1, 101) = .22, p = .64”
- ConsistentF(1, 101) = 0.9reported p = .34 · recomputed p = .345
“F (1, 101) = .90, p = .34”
- ConsistentF(1, 99) = 8.78reported p = .004 · recomputed p = .004
“F (1, 99) = 8.78, p = .004”
- ConsistentF(1, 233) = 14.96reported p = .001 · recomputed p < .001
“F (1, 233) = 14.96, p = .001”
The paper prints p at a floor (such as p < .001)
- ConsistentF(1, 106) = 13.36reported p = .001 · recomputed p < .001
“F(1, 106) = 13.36, p = .001”
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§ Discussion · p. 8
“| Environment cue | .16* | .09 | .08 | - .06 | .25 |”
§ Habit antecedents as predictors of habit formation · p. 7
“behavioral complexity and cues were not significant (Table 3).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kaushal, N., & Rhodes, R. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Victoria (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Kaushal, Navin
- Venue
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine
- Published
- 2015-04-08
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 652-663
- ISSN
- 0160-7715 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3521
- OpenAlex
- W2012941021
- Semantic Scholar
- b1b18306ac4f3fa2f46292e7617491a099140699
- Cited by
- 285
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 77 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 20.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Keywords
- exercise habit formation, gym members, dual-process theory, automatic processes, exercise intention, behavioral complexity, affective judgment, exercise behavior change
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Female, Habits, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Reward, Social Environment, Exercise, Intention, Young Adult
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