Sentence examples for active or sedentary from inspiring English sources

They found it hard to classify children's activity and play as either physically active or sedentary, especially activities such as dressing up, crafts and play around the home.

The GP may play a central role in promoting physical activity to this hard-to-reach target group, namely hardly active or sedentary, chronically ill and mobility-limited older adults.

The RPAQ demonstrates a strong correlation for assessing monthly vigorous PA energy expenditure, but not sedentary PA. 47 Likewise, the PAAT and single-item measure only investigate moderate/vigorous PA over the preceding 7 days, questioning its use for all intensities of activity, as it may affect the categorisation of the individual as active or sedentary.

It may appear counterintuitive that someone who undertakes twice the volume of activity per week than another person would be defined as not sufficiently active or sedentary and judged to be failing to obtain the health-benefits of physical activity just because they do not do this activity adequately dispersed over the week.

Women aged over 70 years who were insufficiently active or sedentary, i.e. no participation in moderate-intensity physical activity of at least 30 minutes at least 5 days per week or at least 20 minutes of continuous vigorous-intensity activity three or more times a week [ 14] were included in the study.

To date, the majority of research on physical activity compensation has focused solely on MVPA, though changes along the activity spectrum (i.e. sedentary, light, MVPA) are plausible in response to active or sedentary behaviours [ 8].

As in the case of previous research, GPs did not mention dispensing Green Prescriptions or verbal advice for physical activity to low-active or sedentary patients if these individuals were of normal body weight and had no chronic conditions.

While GPs in the present study were administering Green Prescriptions or providing verbal advice for physical activity as a form of primary prevention for weight management purposes, they were not administering Green Prescriptions or verbally recommending physical activity for patients who were low-active or sedentary, but currently disease free and of average body weight.

A General Practitioner (GP) or practice nurse prescribes physical activity (e.g., a 30 minute session of daily walking, swimming, tai chi etc) primarily for low-active and sedentary individuals who have a stable medical condition, and secondarily for disease-free individuals who are low-active or sedentary [ 13, 14].

Land use forms and comprehensive transportation planning can have a big impact on active transportation or sedentary travel.

PA intervention scenarios were modelled which had the same mean increase in PA but different levels of take-up by people who were more active or more sedentary to begin with.