Teaching Elementary School Health Education/Personal Health and Physical Activity/Regular Physical Activity


 * Physical Activity is any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that results in energy expenditure.


 * Regular Physical Activity is physical activity that is performed on most days of the week.

Health Benefits

 * People who are usually inactive can improve their health and well-being by becoming even moderately active on a regular basis.


 * Physical activity need not be strenuous to achieve health benefits.


 * Greater health benefits can be achieved by increasing the amount of physical activity.

Guidelines for Youth

 * Children should accumulate at least sixty minutes and up to several hours of age-appropriate physical activity on all, or most days of the week.


 * Children should participate in several bouts of physical activity lasting fifteen minutes or more each day.


 * Children should participate each day in a variety of age-appropriate physical activities designed to achieve optimal health, wellness, fitness, and performance benefits.


 * Extended periods of inactivity (more than two hours) are discouraged especially during the daytime.