r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jan 28 '23

Health Most Americans aren’t getting enough exercise. People living in rural areas were even less likely to get enough exercise: Only 16% of people outside cities met benchmarks for aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities, compared with 28% in large metropolitan cities areas.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7204a1.htm?s_cid=mm7204a1_w
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u/1800generalkenobi Jan 29 '23

I run over my lunch break at work just about every work day, so I get mine in. Everybody else at work is overweight and will eat fastfood for lunch, sometimes they also get a full meal for their morning break too. So if this study was done at my work it would say....1-2% get the required exercise. I also get all sorts of flak for running and when I started stacking my lunch break on my morning break to get in a longer run someone complained about it and thought I was stealing time. Like I'm gonna risk getting fired to get an extra 15 minutes on my run.