Purpose Of Review: Obesity remains a prominent societal threat and burden despite well-promoted prevention and treatment strategies, such as regular engagement in physical activity. Obese individuals, in particular, may be prone to inactivity as a result of a variety of displeasure-related parameters resulting from exercise, such as dyspnea, for instance.
Recent Findings: This brief conceptual review discusses the integral roles of exercise-induced affective responses within a novel conceptual-based neurocognitive affect-related model. Specifically, this model includes three pathways: (1) pathway A proposes that neurocognition, and especially, executive function-based cognition, may play an influential role in fostering exercise-induced affective responses, (2) pathway B connects an individual's affective response from exercise to their future exercise behavior, and (3) pathway C suggests a cyclical, bi-directional relationship with executive function indirectly influencing future exercise behavior via affective responses to exercise, and exercise itself playing an important role in executive functioning. Future studies should empirically test this model, which may have utility for promoting exercise among the obese population.
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Institute of Marketing, Trade and Social Studies, Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture, 949 76, Nitra, Slovakia.
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Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
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The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States.
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Faculty of Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555, Japan.
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Motor Action Research Group (GIAM), Institut de Desenvolupament Social i Territorial (INDEST), National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (INEFC), University of Barcelona (UB), Av. de l'Estadi 12-22, Anella Olímpica, E-08038 Barcelona, Spain.
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