The purpose of the study was to test the impact of a two-minute physical exercise that was applied at the beginning and in the middle of lectures on university students’ state motivation and academic learning performance. There were three cohorts of religion education teacher candidates. Three cohorts were randomly assigned to the experimental, Hawthorne, and control groups. Throughout the semester, a teacher enacted physical exercises at the beginning and in the middle of each lecture. The findings revealed the direct positive impact of physical exercise on academic achievement. Only the Hawthorne group’s state motivation was significantly higher than the control group’s state motivation. Finally, the findings did not reveal a significant combined effect of physical exercise and state motivation on academic achievement. The qualitative data revealed that the physical exercise worked as a brief timeout, which caused relaxation and awakening in the participants.

该研究的目的是测试两分钟的体育锻炼对大学生的状态动机和学术学习表现的影响，该锻炼在讲座的开始和之中进行。有三批宗教教育老师候选人。将三个组随机分配到实验组，霍桑组和对照组。在整个学期中，老师会在每堂课的开始和中期进行体育锻炼。研究结果揭示了体育锻炼对学业成绩的直接积极影响。只有霍桑小组的状态动机明显高于对照组的状态动机。最后，研究结果没有揭示体育锻炼和状态动机对学习成绩的显着综合影响。