The document discusses different motivators that can encourage people to exercise, including social cooperation through activities with friends or family, competition through sports or personal goals, social good by fundraising for charity, keeping up appearances publicly or personally, setting new habits at certain times of year, and being inspired by examples of others exercising or consequences of not exercising.

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Anticipating Motivation to Exercise
ReetaBanerjee
reeta@stanford.edu

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Motivator: Social Cooperation
 On a common process: Friend wants you as her running buddy
 Toward a common goal: Friend suggests that you team up and
lose 5 1bs together

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Motivator: Competition
 Friendly competition, but a desire to win: Tug-of-war battle of
one side of the family against the other
 Rival competition: Sports games against competitors
 Self competition: Want to beat your past running time on the
mile

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Motivator: Social Good
 Raising money for a charity: Walking in a Walkathon to Stop
Diabetes
 To set a good example for those who look up to you: Older
sister goes walking to motivate little sister to exercise

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Motivator: Keeping up Appearances
 Improving public image: Publically say that you’re training for a
marathon at work, to seem like you’re athletic
 Improving self image: Start swimming every day to feel good
about your self
 The act of accomplishing the goal is motivating
 The outcome of getting fit builds self image as well

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Motivator: New Reset Points
 Feeling motivated at a new time of year: Adding exercise to list
of New Year’s Resolutions

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Motivator: External sources of
inspiration
 Seeing positive examples of those who have overcome
obstacles to exercise: Watching the Paralypic Games
 Seeing negative examples of what happens when people don’t
exercise: Reading about lack of exercise contributing to
diabetes

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Summary of Motivators