Lazy Guide to Exercise

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s January. Christmas is a distant memory and nobody feels much like getting off the sofa, but luckily this episode can help. James Gallagher is on a mission to find out what is the least amount of exercise you can do to still stay healthy. James goes on a Ramblers wellbeing walk, uses a treadmill for the first time and takes a hot bath all to find out how lazy he can be. His guide Dr Zoe Saynor at University of Portsmouth explains this is the question everyone asks and offers simple tips about how little you can do.

Presenter: James Gallagher Producers: Gerry Holt and Erika Wright

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0:38.3	This one of our walkers.
0:39.3	Okay then I'll lead off.
0:42.3	It's going to be a bit slippery in that so please take care.
0:47.3	Hi there.
0:48.3	Hi.
0:49.3	I don't know about you but I am still feeling stuffed from Christmas.
0:53.3	I've eaten too much for another year running.
0:57.2	So I've got a crucial question this year while I'm eyeing up all of my New Year's resolutions
1:02.0	because, yeah, I should do more exercise, but past experience tells me I don't have the hours in the day to do it.
1:09.4	So here we go.
1:10.5	What's the least amount of exercise we can get away with while still staying healthy? It's the lazy person's charter for exercise. And to start off, I've joined a group of ramblers in Portsmouth on their well-being walk. So are you a regular, Mary? Yes, I am a regular walker, yes. So how far do you go? Two and a half, three miles regularly. I do every week. Okay, so you're fully committed? Yes. What's the benefit? Well, it keeps you healthy. I mean, I suffer with asthma. So if I have an asthma attack, I know when I'm down. Going out for a walk lifts you, you meet other people, and you get yourself out of yourself if you live alone like I do. Can you ask you a question, Mary?
1:45.1	Yes. I'm down. Going out for a walk, lifts you, you meet other people and you get yourself at yourself if you live alone like I do.
1:46.8	Can I ask you a question, Mary?
1:47.9	Yes.
1:48.5	Thinking pure about people's health.
1:50.0	Yeah.
1:50.3	How little exercise do you think the human body can get away with?
1:52.9	Oh my goodness.
1:54.4	Well, you've got to get up, so that's a bit of exercise.
1:57.9	Mary, thank you so much.
1:58.8	You've cheered me up on a sunny day, wouldn't you day?
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