Recent Discovery: Covid-19 Has Changed People’s Exercise Habits

According to one of the researches, researchers reported that in the first few weeks after the U.S. and other countries took the lockdown policies against Covid-19, Google’s search index of the word "exercise" exposed and stayed high for the next few months.

Many people also started to exercise more frequently after searching for relevant information. According to an online survey released in 139 countries by RunRepeat, most people who had kept exercising before the outbreak increased their exercises in the few weeks after the outbreak.

Another independent survey on 1,500 Japanese elderly founded that most of the interviewed elderly did not exercise frequently during the early days of the lockdown, but by June, they walked and exercised as often as they did before the outbreak.

However, another study in June this year, analyzing data from more than 450,000 anonymous smartphone users' step-counting apps, founded that the daily step counts of the smartphone users around the world saw a significant drop after the lockdown.

In the first 10 days after the lockdown measure, the average daily steps fell by about 5.5%. One month after the lockdown, the decline dropped by about 27%.

However, most data from the researches and surveys rely on the interviewees' memories of their exercises. These data are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.

In addition, the findings of the researches and surveys are mainly presented from a macro perspective, and are not analyzed from the perspective of different ages, income levels, gender and other factors. These subdivisions may have different findings regarding people's exercises during the epidemic.