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Inside Health: Lazy Guide to Exercise

Lazy Guide to Exercise

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How lazy can I be and still stay healthy?

James Gallagher explores the lazy person's guide to exercise and asks, what's the least amount of activity needed to still stay healthy?

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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