Track Your Exercise

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Tracking your exercise is a simple and surprisingly effective way to motivate you to move more. Most of us own an exercise tracker, whether it’s the fitness app on our phone or a special bit of kit on our wrist. But how do they make us more active? Professor Carol Maher, from the University of Southern Australia, has found wearing an activity tracker really can encourage more physical activity. She tells Michael how the instant feedback allows people to take control of their activity levels. Michael learns the extra movement a tracker encourages can really help improve your brain power and reduce your risk of certain cancers and type 2 diabetes. Volunteer Rumbi opens her fitness app and steps out to see if it really works.

Series Producer: Nija Dalal-Small Science Producer: Catherine Wyler Researcher: Sophie Richardson Researcher: Will Hornbrook Production Manager: Maria Simons Editor: Zoe Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?
0:06.0	Anonymity is our most valuable gift.
0:09.0	I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.
0:16.0	Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.
0:20.0	Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.
0:24.1	I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.
0:30.0	Young again, with me, Kirstie Young.
0:33.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	5,000 steps.
0:44.3	We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated
0:49.6	with often conflicting advice.
0:51.4	So if you're going to try just one thing to improve your
0:55.2	mental and physical well-being what should it be? Maybe some green tea to
1:00.1	boost your brain power or doing a plank to lure your blood pressure. How about some small
1:06.4	acts of kindness to benefit your immune system? I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will explore one
1:16.8	thing you can start doing today to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect.
1:25.0	Now I have a long day of writing ahead of me sitting at my computer,
1:29.0	so before I start my day I'm going to try using something that most of us have and many of us, including me, never use.
1:38.0	It's a really simple thing that might improve my blood sugars and blood fats and who knows might even keep my waistline trim.
1:46.0	I'm using the fitness tracker on my phone.
1:49.2	I'll just check it now.
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