ukactive – Public Polling for National Fitness Day

Survey of UK adults on how their time spent on exercise and physical activity compares to other everyday activities

On average, UK adults spend 1.6 hours a week doing physical activity.
UK adults spend the most amount of their time on average looking at their phone or tablet with 2.5 hours a day; amounting to approximately 17.5 hours a week.
In comparison, this suggests UK adults spend more than 10 times as much time looking at a phone or tablet than they do on physical activity.
Half of UK adults (52%) say family and friends is what they care most about, while a quarter (26%) say the same about their own health and wellbeing. Just 5% identify Brexit as the subject they care most about and just 4% say the same about climate change.
Just one in ten (11%) UK adults say that on most days if they had an extra hour a day, they would spend it on exercise or physical activity.
This is in stark contrast to the four in five (80%) of UK adults saying health and wellbeing is in the top three subjects they most care about.

Date Published: 09/10/2019

Categories: Public and communities | Social | Sport | UK

Client: ukactive

Methodology

ComRes interviewed 2,080 UK adults aged 18+ online between 6^th and 8^th September 2019. Data were weighted to be nationally representative of all UK adults by key demographics including age, gender, region and socio-economic grade. ComRes is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.