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• Forms of physical activity

  • Play
  • Games
  • Sports
  • Transportation
  • Chores
  • Exercise
  • Recreational activities
• Physical activity

  An activity that involves a moving experience of physical exertion and can be in the form of play, recreation, exercise, sport or work
• Physical inactivity


  Not doing things that require physical movement and energy
• Sedentary behaviour


  Activities that require very low energy expenditure and where sitting or lying is the dominant posture
• Incidental physical activity


  Unstructured activity taken throughout the course of the day
• Structured physical activity


  Planned activity such as participating in organised sport, going to the gym or going for a bike ride
• Exercise

  Planned and structured physical exertion designed to improve health and fitness
• Recreation


  Activities organised for intrinsic rewards such as fun, relaxation and social interactions
• Physical inactivity is defined as people undertaking ‘insufficient’ physical activity to achieve measurable health outcomes
• Inactivity means not engaging in any regular physical activity beyond daily activities, or a lack of moderate-intensity physical activity
• People who do not do sufficient physical activity

  Have a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, colon and breast cancers, type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis
• MET (metabolic equivalent)


  The amount of energy you expend at rest
• 2 METs is twice the energy expenditure of resting levels
• Sedentary behaviours include activities that require less than 1.6 METs to perform
• Being sedentary means staying in the same place and expending low amounts of energy
• Highly active people can also be highly sedentary
• Principles of an individual activity plan

  • Frequency
  • Intensity
  • Time
  • Type of activity (FITT)
• Each subcategory of physical activity is either structured or incidental