Infect me with fitness. Scientists have proven that sport is an epidemic
'20.04.2017'
Source: Mit sloan
Sinan Aral and Christos Nikolaides from the School of Management Mit sloan investigated how sports are related to examples of other people's physical activity. In the study, they analyzed the anonymous data of fitness trackers for more than a million users who were uploaded to the site of healthy lifestyle lovers. The studies examined the duration, distance, and average speed of runs of all these people over 5 years.
Scientists also noticed that the number of people involved in sports is influenced by weather changes. So, it turned out that in those days, when it was raining or snowing, fewer people went for jogging. But besides this, scientists managed to find out that friends of people who were keen on sports from other cities, where there was no deterioration in the weather, went for a run.
The most infectious sports were for people who had not previously been very fond of physical activity. When they decided to play sports, their friends also started running or going to the gym. Moreover, it turned out that men are more likely to get infected with a sports epidemic, moreover, men tend to pick up this epidemic from other men. Women moderately stimulates the activity of female friends and almost does not stimulate the activity of men.
Researchers believe that in order to involve people in sports as much as possible, it is necessary to create an infrastructure and help such people to establish social relationships. Then the sport itself will infect everyone around - and people will not go anywhere from physical education.
