Buttock-clenching at the bus stop: The Government's new bid to get us all fit

A bizarre Government-funded campaign is being launched to encourage people to exercise while they’re waiting for a bus.

According to the campaign’s organisers, those minutes spent at the bus stop watching the traffic go by could be spent more usefully – by standing on one leg, pointing your toes or clenching your buttocks.



Leaflets and posters setting out six Pilates-style exercise moves to do at the bus stop are being distributed to passengers travelling on buses between Blackburn and Manchester.

Anyone concerned about looking ridiculous as they balance on one leg in the middle of the street are reassured that the exercises are ‘discreet’ and that ‘there will be others doing just the same all along the route’.

You can read the exercises here. There's a link to the full pdf document at the top of the page.