48. Sedentary lifestyle is also a deadly epidemic

Now the Prime Minister has said that we should not go to the gym. Stockholm, Malmö and several other municipalities have closed swimming pools, gyms and all races are cancelled. In our attempts to save ourselves from a pandemic, the other life-threatening pandemic, sedentarism, is skyrocketing. How will we get back into good exercise habits again? And are we destroying an entire non-profit fitness sector when we shut it all down to fight COVID-19? To find out, David Eberhard talks to Staffan Movin, Chairman of the Board of En Svensk Klassiker, and Susanne Jidesten, Secretary General of Friskis och Svettis.


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