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    • Supervised exercise programs face persistent high dropout rates, around 50%, despite extensive research.
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    • To identify key challenges in understanding and improving exercise compliance.
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    • Review of 15 years of research on exercise compliance.
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    • Conceptual re-evaluation of exercise behavior.

    Main Results:

    • Exercise may be a unique health behavior, distinct from other health habits in its prompts and reinforcements.
    • Past research suffers from imprecise terminology, unstandardized measures, and a lack of population-specific methods.

    Conclusions:

    • Current approaches to exercise compliance are insufficient.
    • Advancing exercise adherence requires novel definitions, methodologies, and broader theoretical perspectives.