{"id":5455,"date":"2025-06-13T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:03:40","slug":"third-of-romanians-do-not-engage-in-any-type-of-physical-activity-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5455","title":{"rendered":"Third of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sports Barometer in Romania, <a href=\"https:\/\/ires.ro\/uploads\/articole\/ires_sports-festival_barometrul-sportului-in-romania-2025.pdf\">a study<\/a> conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form of exercise, including walking, 5 times a week or more. Another 41% do so 3-4 times a week. The remaining roughly 32% do not do any sort of exercise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for the reason why they do not practice any sport, 42% of Romanians say that they lack the time. Nevertheless, 68% say they wish they had more physical activity in the past 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, access to sports infrastructure near the home is reported as limited by about half of respondents. Pursuant to that, only 15% of respondents without a gym membership intend to purchase one in the next 12 months. Finally, almost 1 in 5 Romanians (18%) have experienced negative emotions (shame, fear, discomfort) in public spaces when trying to exercise or play sports.<\/p>\n<p>Over three-quarters (78%) of Romanians believe that sports and a healthy lifestyle are insufficiently promoted in Romania. Only 19% of respondents consider that their local authorities are making enough efforts to encourage sports. Finally, 68% of Romanians state that they practice some form of physical activity or sport, and only 18% of them engage in an organized sport at least once a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study also revealed that the most practiced sport in Romania is football (52%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The findings are the result of a nationwide opinion poll including 1,085 Romanian adults. The survey\u2019s margin of error is \u00b13%. Data was collected in April and May 2025 through a telephone questionnaire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The data was presented during a special panel moderated by Mihnea M\u0103ru\u0163\u0103, with the participation of sociologist Bianca Dobre (IRES research sociologist) and Mirel Alexa (executive director of Sports Festival).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/viteethumb_info\">Teerawat Winyarat<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases.\u00a0 According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}