More passive with age

Cell phone generation: young people have little desire to exercise

While children are still more motivated and enjoy being active, the desire to exercise decreases in adolescence. One reason: they spend more time on their smartphones.

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Exercise keeps you fit and is fun. But according to a study, today's teenagers prefer to spend more than three hours a day with smartphones, laptops and television. What's behind this and what can we do?

Bright smiles in St. Corona am Wechsel (Lower Austria): Despite the wet weather, children of all ages are out and about on their bikes on the "Wexl Trails". They are school classes - would the older kids have come on their own? If you look at the "Children and Youth Report 2024", it's doubtful. Because: "Mobile phones, computers, smartphones - they're all eating up exercise," says IMAS market researcher Paul Eiselsberg, summing up the survey conducted on behalf of Intersport.