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Individuals with chronic conditions can benefit from formulating action plans to engage in regular physical activity. However, the content and the successful translation of plans into action, so‐called plan enactment, are rarely adequately evaluated. The aim of this study was to describe the content of user‐specified plans and to examine whether participants were more likely to enact their plans if these plans were highly specific, viable, and instrumental.

The study presents secondary analyses from a larger behavioural intervention in cardiac and orthopaedic rehabilitation. The content of 619 action plans from 229 participants was evaluated by two independent raters (i.e., qualitative analyses and ratings of specificity) and by participants themselves (i.e., instrumentality and viability). Plan enactment was also measured via self‐reports. Multilevel analyses examined the relationship …