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Lazy guide to exercise
What is the least amount of exercise you can do to still stay healthy? James Gallagher finds out.
James Gallagher is on a mission to find out what is the least amount of exercise you can do to still stay healthy. James goes on a Ramblers wellbeing walk, uses a treadmill for the first time and takes a hot bath all to find out how lazy he can be and still gain some health benefits.
(Photo: James Gallagher on a treadmill. Credit: Emma Lynch)
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