Outdoor cycling activity affected by COVID-19 related epidemic-control-decisions.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The lockdown of sports infrastructure due to the COVID-19 pandemic has substantially shifted people's physical activity towards public green spaces. With Germany's lockdown as one of the more severe governmentally imposed epidemic-control-decisions, we tested to what extent the frequency of outdoor cycling activities changed from March to June 2020.

Methods

User behaviour and frequency in 15 urban and 7 rural German public green spaces was quantified using cycling data from the fitness application Strava. Changes in cycling activities were analysed with four different generalised linear models, correcting for factors like weather conditions and temporal changes in the user base of the fitness application.

Results

We found a clear increase in outdoor cycling sport

SUBMITTER: Schweizer AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8101741 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature