How Much Physical Activity Should I get in a Day?
The new Canadian physical activity guidelines provide recommendations for aerobic physical activity, strength training, and light activity.
It is recommended adults aged 18 to 64 accumulate at least 150 minutes of aerobic physical activity per week. This physical activity can be in bouts of as little as 10-minutes and should be at a moderate to vigorous intensity.
Moderate Intensity activities cause you to sweat a little and breathe harder.
Vigorous Intensity activities cause you to sweat and be out of breath.
Exercise versus Physical Activity
If you are looking to increase your amount of daily movement, a good start is to understand the difference between exercise and physical activity.
Physical Activity includes any movement that is carried out by the muscles (e.g., going for a walk, stretching your body).
Exercise is planned, structured, repetitive and intentional movement. It is typically intended to improve or maintain physical fitness (e.g., doing a cardio workout).
Focusing on increasing your daily exercise and/or physical activity are both great strategies to increase your daily movement. It’s about finding the activities you enjoy & doing them often.
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The Exercise Series: Get Fit From Home
Below are a series of 10-minute workouts and stretches you can do to incorporate more aerobic physical activity, strength training and light activity throughout the week.
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