Pamela Rackow
Interviewed as a guest
Episode 48
Her research finding that people exercise more when they take up exercise with a new sports companion — study design (control vs intervention group, eight weeks, ~72 and ~83-86 participants recruited via doctors' practices, Swiss health insurers, physiotherapists and gyms), the distinction between emotional and instrumental social support, and why participants were paired with people they already knew rather than strangers. Scott closes by suggesting parkrun is exactly where strangers become exercise friends.