Health Benefits of Physical Activity
This type of physical activity has greater health benefits and results in decreased risks for diseases.
What is aerobic physical activity?
This is a medium amount of moderate-intensity physical activity.
What is 150-300 minutes per week?
Current physical activity guidelines define moderate-intensity activity as equal to this many METs.
What is 3.0 to 5.9?
This is the name given to a group of diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
What is cardiovascular disease?
It is recommended that children and adolescents perform muscle strengthening, bone strengthening, and vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activities at least this many times per week.
What is 3?
This is also known as the amount of physical activity being performed.
What is volume?
According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), this is the recommended frequency of exercise training for developing and maintaining fitness levels.
What is 3 to 5 times per week?
Bicycling at less than 5 mph is classified as this level of intensity.
What is light?
A famous study by this person in the 1950s first observed that physical activity protects against heart disease.
Who is Jeremy Morris?
Children and adolescents should engage in this many minutes of physical activity per day.
These types of activities increase range of motion of joints and the distance a muscle can be stretched.
What is flexibility?
In order to achieve substantial health benefits, adults should engage in this many minutes per week of moderate-intensity physical activity.
What is 150 minutes?
Shoveling heavy snow is classified as this level of intensity.
What is vigorous?
Inactive adults have this much of an increased risk of hypertension.
What is 30%?
Jumping rope is considered to be this type of strengthening activity.
What is bone-strengthening?
What is 3,000 to 3,499?
According to the Physical Activity Guidelines, adults should perform muscle-strengthening activities that are moderate or high intensity and involve all major muscle groups on this many days a week.
What is 2 or more?
Studies show that performing physical activity for this many minutes or longer at a time can have health benefits.
What is 10 minutes?
Aerobic activity improves this, which may help reduce the risk of developing clots or blockages in the arteries.
What is blood circulation?
This is the ongoing surveillance system in the United States to track students in grades 9 to 12 who achieve 60 minutes of moderate-to vigorous-intensity daily physical activity.
What is the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)?
Inactive adults have this percent increased risk of getting hypertension, which is also regarded as a risk for coronary heart disease and for stroke.
What is 30%?
For older adults, regular physical activity reduces the risk of this.
What are falls?
This type of physical activity increases the body's ability to utilize oxygen as a source of fuel for sustained work.
What is aerobic activity?
What is HDL?
Playing tug-of-war is this type of strengthening activity.
What is muscle-strengthening?