Health Benefits of Exercise

HYDERABAD, MAY 13: Hyderabad won the Fifth place with 6.6 scores for Fitness, Reebok Fit India Survey revealed it.

To be healthy, Excercise is also essential along with good food. This is especially important for people living in different types of pollutants.

But the renowned sports shoe maker Reebok said there is less awareness about the exercise and body fitness in the in the country especially, in Southern states.

Reebok recently conducted a survey in the name of 'Fit India' to spot Indian ideas and habits on exercise.

According to the report, The Northern people are best in keeping the body fit... Reebok derived these results by surveying over 1,500 people aged 20-25 across eight nationwide cities.

The Survey said, ' All Myths are lost about Indians fitness, as they found at least 6.5 People are having awareness about exercises in out of 10,' said Sylvia Talon, Senior Marketing Director, Reebok India. However, in the Southern cities, to increase the awareness he said.

ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY REPORT:

* Pune has topped the awareness of fitness. The city was ranked 7.6 while Chandigarh finished second with 7.3. Kolkata (6.71%), Delhi / NCR (6.68%), Hyderabad (6.6%), Bangalore (6.34%) and Chennai (6.21%) respectively.

* This Generation youth are highly participating fitness program is 'yoga'. It says that the majority of Bangalore (74%) is doing yoga ... this number is 71% in Chennai and 67% in Hyderabad.

* There is Low awareness in various new methods of exercise. In Chennai and Bangalore, less than 10 percent are interested in new methods like martial arts and kickboxing. Nearly half of the other cities are aware of such things.

* Most of them are based on YOUTUBE for learning about exercises. Out of the surveyed 69 percent of Hyderabadians are following YouTube, 68 per cent in Bangalore, 58 percent in Chennai.

* While south cities are slightly backward in fitness, in the marathon running competitions they are better than other cities.

* The situation in Hyderabad is also the same, nothing is different in Watching fitness videos on YouTube and blindly follow them is Hyderabadi style, the Company said.