{"id":139506,"date":"2025-10-23T02:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139506\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:04:14","slug":"at-58-kate-garraway-relies-on-neat-exercise-over-the-gym-to-stay-fit-heres-how-to-do-it-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139506\/","title":{"rendered":"At 58, Kate Garraway relies on NEAT exercise over the gym to stay fit \u2013 here’s how to do it effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"

If she\u2019s not presenting on Good Morning Britain, she\u2019s caring for her two teenage children or playing an epic Faithful in the new series of Celebrity Traitors, but Kate Garraway has a pretty foolproof way to stay fit no matter how busy she gets: NEAT exercise<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Standing for Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, NEAT exercise refers to any movement you do that isn\u2019t planned exercise, like walking, gardening or doing chores. For Kate, it means walking and making the school run a physical run: \u2018I feel so much better if I do a lot of exercise but I find it really hard to do,\u2019 she told Fit & Well magazine. \u2018So I make sure I walk everywhere really fast, so I\u2019m sweaty and feel out of breath. I run to school four or five days a week to collect the kids.\u2019 <\/p>\n

To caveat, the aforementioned interview took place in 2018, but in another more recent interview with Good Housekeeping<\/a> in 2023, Kate shared that while her late husband Derek was unwell, she found solace in \u201910 minute of something physical, such as stretching or pottering in the garden with a mug of tea\u2019 \u2013 both of which would fall under the NEAT exercise umbrella. Even more recently, last year, she shared an Instagram post explaining how she had spent a whole day gardening.<\/p>\n

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Non-intentional exercise makes up significantly more of your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure \u2013 how many calories you burn across each day), compared to the time you spend exercising in a gym or doing a planned workout. NEAT makes up 50% of your TDEE, while a planned workout typically counts for around 10%. The more you fit movement into your day, whether that be walking instead of taking public transport, gardening, using a standing desk instead of sitting down, or carrying shopping instead of using a trolley, the more energy you expend and the bigger the fitness benefits.<\/p>\n

Some other examples of NEAT include:<\/p>\n