So what is Britain's fittest profession? We all know that sitting in a chair all day is not doing us any good and it's certainly of benefit to go take a walk every so often and some fresh air to improve health and your productivity.

But which Britain's have the fittest profession? And not just through there job, but outside of work too. Do those in jobs that require more manual labour lead fitter lives outside of work or are they just too tired?

Based on research done by Direct Line for Business we can reveal to you Britain's fittest profession!

Tradespeople. That's right, probably not a huge surprise but Tradespeople are more likely to be leading healthier lives than other working professionals.

Only 1 in 14 eating more than their RDA and spending 4.69 hours on average a week in the Gym or playing sports and that's on top of the physical work in their jobs!