The phrase "a physical effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an action that requires bodily strength or exertion.
Example: "Lifting heavy boxes requires a physical effort that can be exhausting."
Alternatives: "a bodily exertion" or "a manual effort."
Only later did I realise how much of a physical effort it was for Harold.
"If we don't come out with a physical effort against Pittsburgh tomorrow, then there's a major problem," Low said.
Look at it this way: when was the last time shooting a person in a video game – a single person – was a physical effort?
Thus, subjects' behavior was positively correlated between conditions, with subjects that trusted or reciprocated more in a monetary condition tending to be more trusting/trustworthy in a physical effort condition.
It is therefore clear that general and not specific central mechanisms during motor planning anticipate the physiological demands of a motor task, while peripheral mechanisms more precisely respond to the physiological changes during a physical effort.
Anything that requires a physical effort" [respondent 19, see Table 3].
"Coming here that day was a demanding physical effort and an incredible emotional journey," said Marilyn Jordan Taylor, the chairwoman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Those who considered themselves pacesetters, not followers, would therefore donate more to a charity and even make a greater physical effort to stick the theoretical donation in the farther of two boxes in the same room.
It's a strange, going-nowhere run-up, with a big physical effort at the end.
"We made a tremendous physical effort and we still did not go down a level in performance, so it was a massive effort for them and I'm extremely happy with the result," he told BBC Sport.
One book on this year's Man Booker longlist is 1,004 pages and holding something that size to read it is a genuine physical effort.
