Tag: Health and wellbeing

• 1 in 5 Brits don’t think 150 minutes of exercise a week is realistic;
• Not having enough time, the weather and work are top reasons for not moving more; 
• A fifth of young people don’t exercise because they don’t want to break a sweat;
• Left holding the baby: women are more likely to be less active because of childcare commitments;
• A third of adults in England walk for less than 10 minutes during an entire week. In Scotland, 31 per cent of adults haven’t walked as a means of transport once in the last weekend 30 per cent of adults in Wales haven’t walked as transport for at least five minutes once a week.
• Living Streets is urging people to #Try20 and walk for 20 minutes a day throughout National Walking Month this May

One in five people in the UK don’t think it’s realistic to do 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week, according to new data released today by charity Living Streets to mark the start of National Walking Month. Continue reading Two and a half hours of exercise a week? That’s a step too far for many