The processes of change are the strategies used to progress along the stages of change. The processes are divided into cognitive (thinking) and behavioural (doing) strategies. For exam-ple, people might seek information on physical activity and mood enhancement (cognitive strategy) or post a note on the fridge door to remind them to walk that day (behavioural strat-egy). We found that both types of strategies tend to be used throughout the change cycle(Marshall and Biddle 2001), probably due to individual preferences. The health action process approach (HAPA) is becoming a popular framework to under-stand both the intentional and behavioural aspects of physical activity. It combines constructs from stage-based and linear models (Biddleet al.2007