Big jump in numbers cycling for leisure and home exercising Vital importance of keeping gyms open stressed in key reportNearly 12 million adults in
England did less than 30 minutes of exercise a week between mid-March and mid-May, the latest Sport England Active Lives survey has found, with the spring lockdown causing “unprecedented” falls in activity levels.
The proportion of the population classed as inactive – meaning they did less than half an hour of walking or other activity a week – rose by 3.4m to 11.8m, an increase of 7.4%, with the poor, elderly, and ethnic groups hit particularly hard.