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Lifestyle/ Health & Wellness

If you like to exercise to music or while watching TV, don’t stop. It’s probably good for you

Too much time spent viewing TV and digital devices leaves less time for exercising and makes us want to eat more, studies show. But new research suggests there’s an exception – watching, or playing music, while working out

Watching TV while you work out may actually improve your exercise habits. Photo: Alamy

Nearly everyone has heard the bad news regarding screen use, personal fitness, and weight management. Too much TV, smartphone, and other digital involvement has decreased our exercise time and increased our calorie consumption. It comes as a surprise, then, to learn about a new paper that’s got something good to say about screen time and exercise.

A team from the University of Ottawa in Canada measured the post-exercise food intake and movement patterns of teenage boys who exercised while watching TV, listening to music or receiving no other stimuli. No previous experiment had looked into the effect of screens or music on subsequent food consumption and physical activity. The findings were published in the journal Appetite.