“…Numerous studies have investigated self-reported affective responses to exercise and shown that negative affect during exercise is associated with exercise avoidance, especially in sedentary populations (e. g., Ekkekakis & Dafermos, 2012;Rhodes & Kates, 2015). Likewise, there are several reports of positive correlations between automatic affective evaluations (we will use "evaluation" in all cases where this term was used in the original study) and self-reported exercise volume (Bluemke et al, 2010;Chevance, Caudroit, Romain, & Boiché, 2017), as well as one prospective longitudinal study, in which more positive automatic evaluations predicted objectively monitored attendance at an exercise course (Antoniewicz & Brand, 2016b).…”