Work and personal life used to be much more separate — work mostly finished when leaving the office, and personal matters were paused during office hours, with the exception of phone calls for important matters. With the advent of laptops, smartphones and wearables, work-life boundaries have b …

What’s in store for wearables? Wearables are here to stay. Data from the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker Report forecasts 240.1 million units will be shipped in 2021, with the ability to measure heart rate with an oximeter built into a ring, stress wit …

Sedentarism: the new smoking We all know the benefits of moving more, but now more than ever we are witnessing the dangers of our sedentary lifestyles. Sedentarism is the ‘new smoking’. From mobile apps to ever-more sophisticated activity trackers, technology has given rise to an array of tools tha …

How we discovered the dark side of wearable fitness trackers Under the electronic thumb. Shutterstock Dr Rikke Duus , UCL and Dr Mike Cooray , Ashridge Business School You no longer have to look to science fiction to find the cyborg. We are all cyborgs now. Mobile phones, activity trackers, …

The Daily Mile gets children out of the classroom for fifteen minutes every day to run or jog, at their own pace. The Daily Mile Emily Marchant , Swansea University ; Charlotte Todd , Swansea University ; Gareth Stratton , Swansea University ; Michaela James , Swansea University , and Sinead Brophy …

Research suggests that couples who exercise together, stay together. (Shutterstock) Scott Lear , Simon Fraser University Want to spice up your relationship for Valentine’s Day? Or maybe even start a new one off on the right foot? Go on an exercise date. Exercise has a lot of health benefits and can a …

Willpower and habits involve different parts of the brain. lemono/Shutterstock.com Wendy Wood , University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences More than 80% of people who make New Year’s resolutions have already given up on their goals by February. While there’s a lot …

The Singapore government recently announced plans to provide their 5.6 million population with fitness trackers in a nationwide public health initiative, but can it really be that simple to get people moving more? At the GetAMoveOn Network, we’ve been researching fitness trackers and apps to try to f …

GetAMoveOn hosted a Policy Dialogue breakout session at the ukactive National Summit on October 31, 2019, attended by a wide range of delegates with an interest in promoting physical activity – from policy-makers, commissioners and service providers, to physical activity practitioners, clinicians a …

Find out more about the Deep Dive series . What really motivates people to be more active? Surface skim We hear a lot about the health benefits of exercise, but are those what really motivates people to move more? Education about health benefits can help motivate people to be more active, but there …