Sentence examples for bouts of vigorous activity from inspiring English sources

Published analyses of NHANES III (1988 1994) indicate that 80% of 8 to 16 year old US children had engaged in 3 or more bouts of vigorous activity in the previous week [ 8].

An accelerometer does not measure 60 minutes of vigorous activity while playing tennis, but only short bouts of vigorous activity and in-between bouts of moderate or light PA.

Adolescent boys were more likely than girls to engage in vigorous activity, but at younger ages no difference by gender was observed; non-Hispanic white children reported more bouts of vigorous activity per week than non-Hispanic black or Mexican American children [ 8].

Our results are similar to what others have found in this age group of children, for example NHANES III (1988-1994) analyses of 8-16 year old children found that 20.0% of US children participated in 2 or fewer bouts of vigorous activity per week, and the rate was higher in girls (26.0%) than in boys (17.0%) [ 29].

We use a 3-s epoch because this duration approximates the mean and median duration of vigorous activity bouts observed in young children [ 24] and, based on our pilot work, accurately captures physical activity intensity [ 25].

Twenty minutes of moderate activity is roughly equal to 10 minutes of vigorous activity.

Women have proven they can withstand 12 hours or more of vigorous activity.

These vigorous activity and walking scores can, in turn, be used to develop a binary variable indicating whether the subject met the US Centers for Disease Control threshold of 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week or 150 minutes of vigorous or moderate activities per week, occurring in at least ten minute bouts.

Results from the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data in 2000 revealed 16% of pregnant women completed at least 3, 20 minute bouts of vigorous leisure activity (or 5, 30 minute bouts of moderate leisure activity) [ 29].

Analyses from NHANES III (1988 1994) of 8 16 year old children's reported bouts of vigorous physical activity per week also found differences in levels of physical activity relative to child age, gender, and race/ethnicity [ 8].

Others have shown that boys and girls in grades 1 12 exhibited few bouts of vigorous physical activity (22).