{"id":627,"date":"2017-08-24T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=627"},"modified":"2017-08-25T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:09:52","slug":"active10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/08\/24\/active10\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroll on! Thousands miss out on health benefits of walking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researcher speaks to BBC Radio Sheffield about a new app helping improve physical activity.\u00a0Gareth Jones, a researcher from Health and Wellbeing, spoke to Toby Foster about a new app, Active 10, developed by Public Health England in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University, The University of Sheffield, and the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine. The new app shows how much physical activity a person is doing every day and helps them become more active. Listen here<\/a> from 1:25:27. This story originally appeared on ITV.com<\/a> – and you can find out more about the App here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shocking figures from Public Health England (PHE) show that around 3\/4 of a million adults fail to walk for ten minutes at least once a month.<\/p>\n

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Over 740,000 adults aged 40-60 in our region do not achieve ten minutes of continuous brisk walking over the course of a month and are missing out on health benefits, says the health body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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20%:\u00a0Amount by which people in UK are less active than they were in the 1960s.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The sedentary nature of modern, busy lives has been blamed – making it difficult for many to find the time for enough exercise to benefit their health.<\/p>\n

The figures – which have been drawn from evidence reviewed by PHE – come as it launches a new ‘One You’ physical activity campaign.<\/p>\n

The campaign is encouraging adults to build 10 minutes continuous brisk walking into their day as a simple way to improve their health. This is particularly aimed at those who have an inactive or low activity lifestyle and may find incorporating activity into their day challenging.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe free app combines walking intensity and time, rather than just distance or steps and is the first free app to do so. It\u2019s simple to use and incorporates behaviour change principles to help make brisk walking a daily habit.<\/p>\n

It also helps people gradually introduce more activity into their routine with goal setting advice and motivational tips, and it is great to see that 50,000 people have already downloaded it.\u201d Rob Copeland, Professor of Physical Activity and Health at Sheffield Hallam University and Director of NCSEM Sheffield<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

‘Active 10\u2019 app<\/a>\u00a0has been developed to show how much brisk walking a person is doing each day and how to incorporate more of it into their lifestyles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One:\u00a0Just one brisk 10 minute walk a day can reduce the risk of early death by 15%<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We know that 27 per cent of adults in the East of England are achieving less than 30 minutes of physical activity per week. We also know that inactivity can lead to a whole host of health implications.<\/p>\n

But simply incorporating regular 10 minute brisk walks into everyone\u2019s day can make a world of difference to both health, as well as general wellbeing. Barbara Paterson, Deputy Director for Health and Wellbeing at PHE East of England<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a30.9bn: Amount the physical inactivity epidemic amongst adults costs the NHS.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Active 10 app was developed by Public Health England in collaboration with The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University and the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine.<\/p>\n

Further coverage for a new app, Active 10, developed by Public Health England in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University, The University of Sheffield, and the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, has been secured. The new app shows how much physical activity a person is doing every day and helps them become more active. Additional media coverage has come from titles such as Campaign<\/a>, Nursing Times<\/a>, Practice Business<\/a>, and News Medical<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researcher speaks to BBC Radio Sheffield about a new app helping improve physical activity.\u00a0Gareth Jones, a researcher from Health and Wellbeing, spoke to Toby Foster about a new app, Active…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9105,"featured_media":629,"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":[3,21,1],"tags":[23,88,90,87,89],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hwbheadlines","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-of-sport-and-physical-activity","tag-active-10","tag-public-health-england","tag-rob-copeland","tag-walking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2017\/08\/active-10.jpg?fit=1028%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8KEAX-active10","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3598,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2019\/07\/02\/national-centre-for-sport-and-exercise-medicine-in-sheffield-appoints-new-programme-manager\/","url_meta":{"origin":627,"position":0},"title":"National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine in Sheffield appoints new programme manager","author":"Mark Greene","date":"July 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"SHU press release The National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine in Sheffield has appointed a new programme manager. 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