N.J. is lazier than Delaware?!? See the stats (and get off your butt).

Do better, Jersey.
New Jersey residents are slacking when it comes to exercise, according to recent figures from the Apple Heart & Movement study.
Garden Staters exercised an average of 33.9 minutes a day, coming in tied for 12th in the nation alongside Minnesota and Pennsylvania.
Worse, New Jerseyans lag far behind fellow Northeast locales Washington D.C., New York and Massachusetts, which led the pack. They trail Delaware, Connecticut and Maryland too.
The data comes from the Apple Heart & Movement study, a collaboration between the American Heart Association and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. Researchers tracked Apple Watch and iPhone data from men and women across the nation between 2021 and 2024.
New Jerseyans also lagged behind 13 other states when it came to their VO2 max levels, the gold standard metric for measuring heart health, according to the report’s authors. A higher VO2 max can lead to a stronger heart and a longer life. Garden State residents had an average VO2 max of 35.6.
Residents in D.C., Hawaii and Colorado had the best VO2 max scores.
So what’s New Jersey’s excuse?
The report’s authors point to a few reasons, “including regional differences in lifestyle, weather, access to parks and recreational facilities, and social determinants of health.”