Exercise:
A type of physical activity that involves planned, structured, and
repetitive bodily movement done to maintain or improve one or more
components of physical fitness.
Leisure-time
physical activity: Exercise, sports, and physically active hobbies done in
one's leisure time.
Light-moderate
physical activities: These activities might include moderately-paced or
leisurely walking or bicycling, slow swimming or dancing and simple
gardening. This definition is available in the NHIS
Interviewer’s Manual to
provide clarification to respondents but only if the interviewer is asked.
Metabolic
Equivalent (MET) value: Metabolic equivalent (MET) value is defined in as
3.5 mL*kg-1 * min-1 in the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)’s
Guidelines for Exercise (Ref).
Occupational
activity: Activity undertaken as part of one’s employment. This does not
include exercise or physical activities engaged in at employer sponsored
gyms or other facilities.
Other
physical activity topics: Physical activity topics include knowledge of the
health benefits of physical activity, engaging in physical activity for
health-related reasons, receiving medical advice to exercise, availability
of and participation in employer-sponsored exercise facilities, family
discussions about exercise.
Perceived
physical activity level: Self-perceptions of one’s own physical activity
level compared with: (a) other persons the same age; (b) one’s own activity
level at an earlier point in time; and (c) the amount of physical activity
considered desirable for health.
Physical
activity: Any bodily movement that is produced by the contraction of
skeletal muscle and that substantially increases energy expenditure.
Physical
fitness: A set of attributes that people possess or achieve that relates to
the ability to perform physical activity and is comprised of skill-related,
health-related, and physiological components.
Strengthening
activities: Activities that require strenuous muscular contractions such as
weight lifting, resistance training, push-ups, sit-ups, etc.
Transportation-related
activity: Physical activity undertaken for the purpose of getting from place
to place, which may include walking, jogging, biking, or any other
physically active method of getting from one place to another.
Vigorous
physical activities: These activities might include fast walking, fast
bicycling, jogging, strenuous swimming or sports play, vigorous aerobic
dance, and strenuous gardening. This definition is available in the
Interviewer’s manual to provide clarification to respondents but only if the
interviewer is asked.