‘A third of young girls don’t thinking leading an active life is important’

A new survey by Virgin Active and published by Human Kinetics has found that most school children, especially young girls, have worrying attitudes about #exercise.

36 per cent of girls said it was “socially acceptable” for boys to get hot and sweaty but that the same was not true for girls, while 32 per cent said leading an active life was not important to them. 39 per cent of 16-year-old girls said they never undertook any strenuous activity while at school.

Virgin Active has launched a five-year campaign to help tackle rising levels of youth inactivity in collaboration with sports charities and educational organisations.

It also found that overall, more than a third (36 per cent) of young people regularly go at least a week without undertaking moderate or strenuous physical activity, either in or out of school.

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