Employee Fitness: Examples of Moderate Kinds of Physical Activity

Examples of Moderate Kinds of Physical Activity

According to the Surgeon General, significant health benefits can be obtained by including a moderate amount of physical activity on most, if not all, days of the week.

Examples of moderate kinds of physical activity include:

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Beach combing
• Berry picking
• Bicycling
• Carrying wood, water, groceries
• Chopping wood
• Climbing
• Dancing
• Dog mushing
• Exercising
• Fishing
• Gardening
• Hiking
• Hunting
• Ice fishing
• Jumping rope
• Playing games
• Pushing a stroller
• Raking leaves
• Rowing
• Running
• Scrubbing
• Shoveling snow
• Skiing
• Skipping
• Sledding
• Snow shoeing
• Stair walking
• Swimming
• Trapping
• Vacuuming
• Volleyball
• Walking
• Washing and waxing a car
• Washing window or floors
• Water aerobics
• Wheeling self in wheelchair
• Yard work