“…Although factors such as support (e.g., therapeutic alliance), learning (e.g., changing expectations), and actions (e.g., success experience) are initially proposed to explain the equivalent outcomes between psychotherapies (Huibers & Cuijpers, 2014), they can also be applied in exercise. Furthermore, experimental investigations found that leadership, style of intervention, or group leadership in exercise professionals are associated with higher affective benefits (Turner, Rejeski, & Brawley, 1997), physical activity expectations (McAuley, Talbot, & Martinez, 1999), and motivation (Puente & Anshel, 2010;Waters, Reeves, Fjeldsoe, & Eakin, 2012).…”