Motivation to Participate in Exercise in Regular Recreational Exercise

The purpose of this study is to determine the levels motivation individuals participating in regular recreational exercise and examine direction certain variables. While group research was composed 370 university students, criterion sampling method used as method. In research, Mullen et al. (Exercise Behavioral Regulation Scale-2”, which developed by Ersöz (2011), Markland Tobin (2004) renamed“ Scale Exercise Scale-2 ”. analysis data, descriptive statistics, independent sample t test, one-way variance ANOVA test post hoc tests were for intra-group comparisons. When total behavioral regulation scores examined, participants who showed mean (34,11 ± 9,58) received highest score internal sub-dimension (19,83 6,27), while they below average dimension (3,23 3, 74). As a result it can be said that variables change exercise.