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Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Classification of Total Weekly Amounts of Aerobic Physical Activity Into Four Categories
|
Levels of Physical Activity |
Range of Moderate-Intensity Minutes a Week |
Summary of Overall Health Benefits |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Inactive |
No activity beyond baseline |
None |
Being inactive is unhealthy. |
|
Low |
Activity beyond baseline but fewer than 150 minutes a week |
Some |
Low levels of activity are clearly preferable to an inactive lifestyle. |
|
Medium |
150 minutes to 300 minutes a week |
Substantial |
Activity at the high end of this range has additional and more extensive health benefits than activity at the low end. |
|
High |
More than 300 minutes a week |
Additional |
Current science does not allow researchers to identify an upper limit of activity above which there are no additional health benefits. |
Action is needed at the individual, community, and societal levels to help Americans become physically active.
- Inactive is no activity beyond baseline activities of daily living.
- Low activity is activity beyond baseline but fewer than 150 minutes (2 hours and 30 minutes) of moderate-intensity physical activity a week or the equivalent amount (75 minutes, or 1 hour and 15 minutes) of vigorous-intensity activity.
- Medium activity is 150 minutes to 300 (5 hours) minutes of moderate-intensity activity a week (or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity a week). In scientific terms, this range is approximately equivalent to 500 to 1,000 metabolic equivalent (MET) minutes a week.
- High activity is more than the equivalent of 300 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity a week.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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