ABSTRACT
When we think of physical activity, we almost immediately associate it with exercising. Keeping up the good plans to go to the gym twice a week, for instance, is something that we can all imagine is in one way or another related to self-control. After having a long busy day at work, many of us feel tempted to crash on the couch and it requires a great amount of self-control to get our act together and go to the gym. When we manage to go to the gym, we feel reloaded and energized afterwards, proud that we lived up to our good intentions and motivated to do so more often. Our self-control may receive a boost through the act of exercising. In that sense, self-control may be an antecedent as well as a consequence of physical activity.
