Nick Miles

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3,281 appearances 60 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 2 Sep

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Global News Podcast · Ukraine knocks out power in Russian-occupied Crimea · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

There's obviously the physical aspect of it.

So you're getting up and actually moving.

And that's in short breaks.

actually adds up over the course of a day.

So, you know, we often recommend to people they should be doing 30 minutes or to an hour of exercise every day or at least three or four times a week.

But if you've got a busy job, that's not something that's necessarily feasible, especially if you're working long hours.

So breaking up through the day actually cumulatively does add up.

And also that change in posture.

So it's quite good for a reduction in terms of long term diseases, things like high blood pressure, diabetes or just putting on weight, obesity.

So trying to get away from that just by having regular movement is really important.

Is there a cultural aspect to this, that it may be difficult for some people to leave their office, leave their chair, their computer for five minutes every hour, that they're going to worry the boss is going to say, really, are you going on a walk again?

Yeah, I think that's a really valid point because often these kind of working cultures are quite ingrained and it can be quite difficult to get out of that view of exactly what you're doing and having people think that, well, you're just taking a break and you're not doing any work.

The power of this study is that it shows that actually...

productivity is maintained, if not slightly improved throughout.

So actually having these regular breaks does improve workers, not only their wellbeing, but also their outputs at the same time.

So I think there's a really strong argument there to say that these are something that we should be considering going forward, because if it's getting people moving and also getting people doing stuff, then it can only be a good thing.

Not everyone can.

I'm on air for three hours, a train driver can't get up in the middle.

Are there other things you can do?

Wave your arms around, jump up and down?

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