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Active Recreational Activities Guide

This document discusses active recreational activities and provides guidelines for determining their effectiveness. Recreational activities are done during leisure time for enjoyment and refreshing oneself. Active recreational activities require more energy expenditure than usual through movements like running or activities that make one exert more effort. The document recommends moderate daily physical activity that can be accumulated in short sessions. It provides a scoring system to assess intensity, duration, and frequency of activities to determine their benefit based on multiplication of those factors. The conclusion advocates choosing enjoyable activities that fit one's daily routine to sustainably participate in physical activity.

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Active Recreational Activities Guide

This document discusses active recreational activities and provides guidelines for determining their effectiveness. Recreational activities are done during leisure time for enjoyment and refreshing oneself. Active recreational activities require more energy expenditure than usual through movements like running or activities that make one exert more effort. The document recommends moderate daily physical activity that can be accumulated in short sessions. It provides a scoring system to assess intensity, duration, and frequency of activities to determine their benefit based on multiplication of those factors. The conclusion advocates choosing enjoyable activities that fit one's daily routine to sustainably participate in physical activity.

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Active Recreational

Activities

Recreational
Activities
Recreational activities are
those activities held
during ones leisure time.
Their purpose is to refresh
oneself by doing activities
that are considered by an
individual as enjoyable

Recreational
Activities
These activities may require
large body movements such
as running, throwing, and
jumping, or small
movements such as playing
board games, doing arts
and crafts, and many others

Active
Recreational
These
activities
require
Activities
more amounts of energy to
be expended than the
usual energy expenditure.
This means that you do
activities that make you
exert more effort than
what you usually do.

Active
Recreational
Moderate
amounts
Activities

of physical activity
are recommended
daily.

Active
Recreational
The total activity can be
Activities
accumulated in multiple
short bouts for example,
two 10-minute brisk walk
sessions and a 15-minute
bike ride.
This can also be done in
continuous sessions

SCO
RE

INTENSIT
Y

DURATIO
N

FREQUEN
CY

5
4
3
2
1

4
3
2
1
5
4
3
2
1

ACTIVITY
Sustained heavy breathing &
perspiration
Intermittent heavy breathing &
perspiration
Moderately heavy
Moderate
Light
Over 30 minutes
20-30 minutes
10-20 minutes
Less than 10 minutes
6-7 times per week
3-5 times per week
1-2 times per week
A few times per month
Less than once a month

Computation:
Intensity X Duration X Frequency
= Score
Your Score: ____ x ____ x ____ =
_____

Choose recreational activities


that you find enjoyable and
fits into your daily routine.
Your participation in these
activities could easily be
sustained since you personally
enjoy doing them and you
even do it in your own time.
Hence, strict adherence to a
regular physical activity is
very viable.

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