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British children get less than four hours of exercise a week outside of school - but spend more than 14 hours looking at screens, according to research

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00:00Yeah, good effort. How many was that?

00:02I haven't counted.

00:04No one was counting!

00:09I'm someone who loves being active, but research has shown that young people, perhaps no surprise,

00:13are spending a lot less time being active outside, away from school.

00:17Around about four hours a week is the average, but they're spending way more time on things like screens,

00:22watching the telly, social media.

00:24So I've teamed up with AXA Health to do some head-to-head challenges with my boy Ethan

00:29to encourage him and others to get outside and be active.

00:36I'm on the screen, I'm just...

00:40I've gone Ethan.

00:41I've gone you.

00:43When did you last see me go out and get for a run?

00:45I hate morning exercise.

00:47Oh, 100%. I know this one.

00:50It's you.

00:51I'm afraid it's burning me.

00:53Really?

00:54Yeah.

00:55You just got a pull-up bar for Christmas.

00:58Ooh, this is good.

01:04So I'm going to go, I'm going to go you.

01:06Oh, arm wrestle.

01:07Yeah.

01:08Only because we have arm wrestled before.

01:10Ready?

01:11Go on.

01:12There we go!

01:13Yeah.

01:14Oh, nice.

01:15A little tap of the gums.

01:16Did you see that?

01:18Ethan, ready?

01:19Yeah.

01:2030 seconds.

01:21Peepy-uppy challenge.

01:22You're about to find out there's a reason why I talk about football and don't play it.

01:29Oh, God.

01:3228.

01:33Have some of that.

01:34Come on, son.

01:35Here we go, here we go, here we go.

01:38Ready?

01:39Heads.

01:40Shoulders.

01:41Heads.

01:42Knees.

01:43Go!

01:44Oh!

01:45Oh, I had it.

01:46Go!

01:47Oh!

01:48Go!

01:49Oh!

01:53You're like a cat.

01:54The research has shown that if you do a push-up,

01:57you're like a cat.

01:58The research didn't massively shock me, but in other ways it did.

02:01You know, kids spending less than four hours a week outside of school time,

02:04being active, and yet spending over 14 hours on things like

02:08watching telly, social media, video games.

02:12As a parent, as adults, we're kind of their role models.

02:15So they watch what we're doing.

02:16If we're not getting outside, we're not being active ourselves,

02:19why should they follow?

02:20So it's kind of a team thing as a family.

02:23It's about leading from the front as a father.

02:25Having a day with Ethan, head-to-head challenges, has been terrific.

02:28I've had to the whole way through think,

02:30do not be that competitive cat.

02:32You're like a cat.

02:35Very good, very good.

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