British children get less than four hours of exercise a week outside of school - but spend more than 14 hours looking at screens, according to research
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00:00Yeah, good effort. How many was that?
00:02I haven't counted.
00:04No one was counting!
00:09I'm someone who loves being active, but research has shown that young people, perhaps no surprise,
00:13are spending a lot less time being active outside, away from school.
00:17Around about four hours a week is the average, but they're spending way more time on things like screens,
00:22watching the telly, social media.
00:24So I've teamed up with AXA Health to do some head-to-head challenges with my boy Ethan
00:29to encourage him and others to get outside and be active.
00:36I'm on the screen, I'm just...
00:40I've gone Ethan.
00:41I've gone you.
00:43When did you last see me go out and get for a run?
00:45I hate morning exercise.
00:47Oh, 100%. I know this one.
00:50It's you.
00:51I'm afraid it's burning me.
00:53Really?
00:54Yeah.
00:55You just got a pull-up bar for Christmas.
00:58Ooh, this is good.
01:04So I'm going to go, I'm going to go you.
01:06Oh, arm wrestle.
01:07Yeah.
01:08Only because we have arm wrestled before.
01:10Ready?
01:11Go on.
01:12There we go!
01:13Yeah.
01:14Oh, nice.
01:15A little tap of the gums.
01:16Did you see that?
01:18Ethan, ready?
01:19Yeah.
01:2030 seconds.
01:21Peepy-uppy challenge.
01:22You're about to find out there's a reason why I talk about football and don't play it.
01:29Oh, God.
01:3228.
01:33Have some of that.
01:34Come on, son.
01:35Here we go, here we go, here we go.
01:38Ready?
01:39Heads.
01:40Shoulders.
01:41Heads.
01:42Knees.
01:43Go!
01:44Oh!
01:45Oh, I had it.
01:46Go!
01:47Oh!
01:48Go!
01:49Oh!
01:53You're like a cat.
01:54The research has shown that if you do a push-up,
01:57you're like a cat.
01:58The research didn't massively shock me, but in other ways it did.
02:01You know, kids spending less than four hours a week outside of school time,
02:04being active, and yet spending over 14 hours on things like
02:08watching telly, social media, video games.
02:12As a parent, as adults, we're kind of their role models.
02:15So they watch what we're doing.
02:16If we're not getting outside, we're not being active ourselves,
02:19why should they follow?
02:20So it's kind of a team thing as a family.
02:23It's about leading from the front as a father.
02:25Having a day with Ethan, head-to-head challenges, has been terrific.
02:28I've had to the whole way through think,
02:30do not be that competitive cat.
02:32You're like a cat.
02:35Very good, very good.