The United Kingdom is one of the countries with the most active populations in Europe, a trend that has not stopped increasing in recent years. It is estimated that 62.6% of British people exercise for at least 150 minutes per week, which is the recommendation made by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a healthy life. This figure has risen by eight-tenths since the previous year, while the sedentary lifestyle index fell from 25.7% to 25.1% in 2018.
This is evident from the physical activity report prepared by Sport England, the country's government body concerned with sport-related issues. In other words: in 2018, there were more active people and fewer sedentary people than in the previous two years, and the Brits made the difference. While the rate of physical activity and inactivity among men remained stable from 2015-2016 to 2017-2018, the rate for women has changed, with 61% of them currently active and 26% barely exercising.
The data shows that Policies that encourage exercise are having an impact in the UK, especially among young people and older people. Evidence of this is that the percentage of active people between the ages of 16 and 34 is 72%, an increase of one percentage point over last year, while this percentage among those over the age of 75 is 35%, which is a record number that improved in 2018 by about Two points. . Furthermore, the rate of sedentary lifestyle in this group increased from 54% to 52% in the past two years.
Britons, young and old, are more active than they were two years ago; 72% of those under the age of 34 exercise regularly, and 35% of those over the age of 75
Evidence of the importance that the British government attaches to physical exercise is that it has developed a plan for this 1,000 million pounds (1,132 million euros) to finance the renovation of the centers From the state. The goal is to build Axes From sports facilities equipped with swimming pools, gyms and pavilions to libraries, clinics and police stations. “We know it's not a small investment, but compared to the cost of inactivity in the NHS, it's small,” Sport England said when announcing the investment plan.
In fact, two of the sporting activities that have gained the biggest following in the past year are those that can be done in the network of fitness centers that the UK is considering revamping: fitness And swimming. According to the organization, between November 2017 and the same month in 2018, a total of 13.4 million people went to a sports center, up 1.5% year-on-year. The number of swimming practitioners increased by 2.1% to reach 4.7 million people.
However, the category that grew the most was going for a walk for leisure and during a trip, two options that convinced 19.1 million and 14.9 million Britons respectively. In addition, a 15.3% increase in the number of people who took up adventure sports was discovered.
Conversely, racket specialties lost 8.3% of practitioners, amounting to 2.2 million. Team sports and cycling also lost followers, with declines of 3.1% and 4.6%, respectively. Although he ran It's becoming a trend, in the UK, we're starting to see a decline in the number of people going out for a run, a proposition that has attracted 6.9 million people Runners1.4% less.
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