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How important is exercise?

In this chart, you'll find the average importance people place on exercise, divided by gender. Participants rated how vital working out is to their lives on a scale from 0 (not important) to 5 (extremely important). Now it's your turn: use the slider to share how important exercise is to you personally. Take a moment to explore — are you more motivated than most? Or is there inspiration waiting for you?

Workout have a more elevated status among men, but the proportion that doesn't care about workouts seems pretty equal.

How much and often do you need to exercise to be healthy?

How healthy do you feel compared to others?
This graph shows how healthy people consider themselves based on how often and how long they work out.
You can select your own workout time, duration, and how healthy you feel using the options below.
Your personal input will be shown as a dot on the heatmap, so you can easily see how you compare to others!

Exercising for 2 hours and exercising for 3 hours shows a stark difference. People go from feeling averagely healthy to feeling extremely healthy. Feeling extremely healthy when doing workouts of 3 hours seems to check out. We should keep in mind that the amount of workouts per week aren't shown here, which could also have a huge influence on how healthy someone feels.

Fun fact

Nobody works out in the afternoon

A company a day keeps the laziness away

With whom do you exercise?

Are you a social bird when it comes to exercise, or do you prefer to go at it alone? This graph shows how much this could influence your exercise time per day. You can select the values that correspond to you, and we will show you your standings compared to other people.

If we exclude doing workouts within a class environment, then time exercised clearly increases the more people you train with. Of course, if I was with someone, I would enjoy spending as much time with them as I could. But within a class environment, it's a little more nuanced. Workouts of 1 hour are most prominent. This is most probably because physical class lessons take around 1 hour, such that this is just the length of the average physical lesson.

Barrier Buster: Find Your Motivation

Everyone faces challenges on their fitness journey. What's holding you back from exercising more regularly? Select the barrier that resonates most with you, and discover what motivates others who face the same challenge. This visualization reveals the common motivations that drive people past similar obstacles - helping you find the spark that might work for you too.

So much motivation! For example, people that have an injury want to practice to become more flexible or relieve stress. And getting an injury does the exact opposite. These people really have got the spirit!

Dieting and its barriers

Dieting is never easy, and each age groups has different challenges. The five pie charts highlight the most common dieting struggles faced by people at the different stages of life. Each chart represents a distinct age group, capturing how challenges evolve with age.

Every age group struggles with something different. The group of ages 26 - 30 only struggles with temptation and cravings, for example. This group is rather small, though, and is therefore highly biased, which explains only one category for this age group. Almost everyone does struggle with a lack of time, but what's interesting is the ages of 19-25 also struggling with cost. This can make sense, since this is the start of a person's adult life, where they become more independent and are still finding a steady basis.

What motivates you?

Everyone has different motivations for working out. Can the genders agree on what motivates them?

Most motivations correlate between genders. Muscle mass is an outlier that resonates way more with the male population, while fat loss resonates more with the female population. Wanting to achieve a sporting goal also has 2 time more correspondents in the male population than the female population. Here we should take into account that there are more female correspondents in the dataset than male correspondents in total.