{"id":3160,"date":"2019-03-25T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2019-03-25T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:14:46","slug":"walking-expert-comments-on-fitness-app-that-rewards-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2019\/03\/25\/walking-expert-comments-on-fitness-app-that-rewards-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"WALKING: Expert comments on fitness app that rewards exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2019\/03\/25\/walking-expert-comments-on-fitness-app-that-rewards-exercise\/walking\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3161\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3161\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2019\/03\/25\/walking-expert-comments-on-fitness-app-that-rewards-exercise\/walking\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Walking.jpg?fit=1920%2C1281&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1281\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D610&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Walking\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Walking.jpg?fit=700%2C467&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3161 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Walking-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Walking.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Walking.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Walking.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Walking.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Walking.jpg?w=1400 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dr Nick Tiller, senior lecturer in applied physiology, spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/health-family\/fitness\/would-you-walk-more-if-you-were-paid-for-your-steps-1.3794173\">The Irish Times<\/a> about an app which &#8216;pays&#8217; people to increase their step-count and whether there are long-term benefits of using monetary incentives to increase exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the Sweatcoin concept, Dr Nick Tiller said: \u201cSweatcoin might facilitate a short-term interest in increasing the daily step-count, but what are the long-term implications of this? By externalising subjective motivation \u2013 i.e. offering monetary rewards as incentives to physical activity \u2013 are we treating the underlying issues associated with poor lifestyle, such as education, time-management, and lack of concern for our own health?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/health-family\/fitness\/would-you-walk-more-if-you-were-paid-for-your-steps-1.3794173\">full interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Nick Tiller, senior lecturer in applied physiology, spoke to The Irish Times about an app which &#8216;pays&#8217; people to increase their step-count and whether there are long-term benefits of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3083,"featured_media":3162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-wellbeing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2019\/03\/Fitness-app-walking.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-OY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":712,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/08\/31\/endurance-challenges\/","url_meta":{"origin":3160,"position":0},"title":"Physiology lecturer explores the impact endurance challenges have on the body.","author":"Jane Gardner-Florence","date":"August 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr Nick Tiller wrote this piece for The Conversation after monitoring and assessing the physical responses of a group of athletes who were undertaking the 100 Peaks Challenge. 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