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Research suggests that people exercise less when demands in their job or studies increase (Englert & Rummel, 2016; Oaten & Cheng, 2005; Sonnentag & Jelden, 2009). Building upon these findings, the present study investigated the relationship between university students' implicit theories about willpower and the amount they exercise during their final examination period. We hypothesized and found that students with a limited theory about willpower-those who believed that their self-control resembles a limited resource-exercised significantly less than students with a nonlimited theory during this stressful period (about 220min less over the course of 2 weeks). ​