| （School of Education Science，Shaanxi Normal University，Xi’an 710062，China) Abstract: A physical exercise habit is a lasting steady exercise behavior supported by sports fitness belief, essen-tially different from an automated physical movement habit. Sports fitness belief is formed by an individual in sports practice, based on the constantly deepened experience of sports fitness cognition, it is the affirmation of and adherence to such a viewpoint as sport promoting physical and mental health. A sports fitness belief model is a theoretical model used to explain the process of formation of physical exercise habits: sports fitness belief the power that supports physical exercise habits, it can let an individual maintain his/her care about and sensitivity to his/her own health, enhance his/her health awareness, lastingly stimulate his/her need for physical exercise, so that he/she produces a motive for physical exercise, sticks to his/her physical exercise behaviors, and never gives up easily.
Key words: sports psychology；physical exercise habit；sports fitness belief；sports fitness belief model |
