"Which, if any, of the following types of exercise do you do regularly (i.e. 30 minutes or more a week)? (By exercise we mean any activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve your health or wellbeing."
That was the question asked by yougov representatives to 4,209 people during the week ending 11th August 2011. You can read the four page report here .
The usual suspects are there: walking, cycling, gym, swimming etc - but 3% of those surveyed replied by saying that meditation and yoga were used to "sustain or improve your health or wellbeing." They, the 126 people who responded by saying so, must have been thinking about the wellbeing part because I'll be buggered if I can see how either will improve your health - apart from the benefits of being stress free of course and therefore reducing the chance of illness - see how I've managed to argue against my point there.
Anyway call me cynical but I couldn't help thinking of Billy Connolly and the Luge: "Is there a sport where you move less than that? That’s the sport for me. I could train in bed. They slide down the hill, dressed in a full body condom . . .lying on a tea tray. The first time I saw it I thought I was watching an Eskimo funeral."
2 comments:
LOL!
One point: the physical side of yoga is fantastic for your health (I just wish I could do it!) ...mainly due to flexibility of joints/muscles etc
I tried yoga once many years ago and thought I'd broken my spine.
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