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How to keep healthy and active at home during coronavirus lockdown
Sitting is the new smoking, we have been warned, with health risks shooting up the more you sit down.
Long periods of inactivity contributed to 70,000 deaths in the UK in 2016 due to obesity, cardiovascular disease, increased blood pressure and type2 diabetes.
This has scary implications for us on lockdown.
But a surprising study has found regular four-second blasts of exertion throughout the day could be the answer.
We spoke to European champion powerlifter, Rhys Charlesworth, founder of specifixtraining.com and author Big Secret of Fat Loss, for his top tips.
Take a hike
It’s easy to get outside for a daily walk – but where you are going is key. If you are walking on flat roads near your home, kick it up a notch by picking a harder route.
Walk up that hill near your house, take a nearby public footpath that runs through a field of tall grass and make your daily walk more of a ramble or hike.
If you expend ten per cent more energy on your daily walk, that is 70 per cent more energy you have burned in a week.
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