Track Your Exercise

Tracking your exercise is a simple and surprisingly effective way
to motivate you to move more. Most of us own an exercise tracker,
whether it’s the fitness app on our phone or a special bit of kit
on our wrist. But how do they make us more active? Professor
Carol Maher, from the University of Southern Australia, has found
wearing an activity tracker really can encourage more physical
activity. She tells Michael how the instant feedback allows
people to take control of their activity levels. Michael learns
the extra movement a tracker encourages can really help improve
your brain power and reduce your risk of certain cancers and type
2 diabetes. Volunteer Rumbi opens her fitness app and steps out
to see if it really works.


Series Producer: Nija Dalal-Small Science Producer: Catherine
Wyler Researcher: Sophie Richardson Researcher: Will Hornbrook
Production Manager: Maria Simons Editor: Zoe Heron A BBC Studios
production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.