Fit Brit Infographic<\/h3>\n
Check out this infographic we put together to illustrate the findings:<\/p>\n
When it came to the amount of time spent exercising, only 37% of the people we surveyed spent the NHS recommended amount of time (over one hour and up to three hours) exercising per week. Of those people who are active at least once a week, just 1% of people did fifteen minutes or less, while 34% exercised for more than four hours – proving we are an all or nothing nation!<\/p>\n We found women to be more active than men overall, but also better at doing the right kinds of exercise too, with 17% of women varying their exercise compared to 14% of men. But team sports like football and rugby, which count as both cardio and muscle strengthening, are most likely to be played by men. Just 2% of women were involved in team games compared to 13% of men.<\/p>\n Whether it’s the influence of London native and BULK POWDERS\u2122 sponsored athlete James DeGale<\/a> or the lads from LDN Muscle, London is the UKs \u2018strongest\u2019 city, beating the rest of the UK when it comes to the amount of people who perform muscle strengthening exercises per week. 27% of Londoners lift every week, while half that amount flex their muscles in Edinburgh, Brighton and Southampton.<\/p>\n However Brightonians were most active in team sports, while Liverpool topped the poll for intensive cardio, with 34% of Liverpudlians getting sweaty on a weekly basis. In fact, Liverpudlians performed well in all areas which led to Liverpool being crowned BULK POWDERS\u2122 most active UK city.<\/p>\n Overall, Nottingham was found to be the least active city, with Glasgow a close second. Glasgow also had the highest percentage of people who exercised less than once a week (19%). Bristol was home to the highest percentage of people who don\u2019t exercise at all (30%), but it was saved from the bottom of the table by the active people of Bristol performing really well.<\/p>\n Are you one of the UKs top 16% or could you stand to benefit from a little variety in your gym routine? Are you a woman who plays team sports or an exercise-fanatic from Nottingham? Do you know of some lazy Liverpudlians or gym-mad Glaswegians? Regardless of where you are from in the UK (or elsewhere in the world!) we\u2019d love to hear your thoughts on the results of our survey! Drop us a line on Facebook<\/a> or Twitter<\/a> and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n *The NHS sets physical activity guidelines for adults aged 16-64, stating the length of time you should be exercising for and the types of exercises you should be doing. They recommend the following:<\/em><\/p>\n 1 in 3 people aren’t doing enough exercise As a BULK POWDERS™ customer you probably head to the gym a couple of times a week, feeling pretty safe that you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,363,356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-news-and-updates","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16087,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/16087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Unfit](\"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Unfit-Brit-Infographic2.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nAll or nothing<\/h3>\n
Team games most likely played by men<\/h3>\n
Liverpool crowned most active city<\/h3>\n
Nottingham the least active city<\/h3>\n
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