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Heavy yard work is now out of the question for him; so is shoveling the driveway after a big snowstorm.
After age 50, you can expect a little joint stiffness or muscle soreness the morning after a challenging workout or some heavy yard work.
Vigorous activity included "running, aerobics, heavy yard work, or anything else that causes large increases in breathing or heart rate".
Vigorous physical activity includes running, aerobics, heavy yard work, or anything else that causes large increases in breathing or heart rate.
Participants separately reported their level of moderate activity, defined as causing a small increase in breathing or heart rate with examples of brisk walking, bicycling, vacuuming, and gardening, and vigorous activity, defined as causing a large increase in breathing or heart rate with examples of running, aerobics, and heavy yard work.
Leisure activities were assessed on a scale from 0 to 6: (0) no household work: TV and reading only; (1) minimal household work, card games, sewing; (2) light yard work, light household work, shopping; (3) heavy yard work, heavy household work; (4) golf, dancing, hiking, water aerobics; (5) recreational sports; (6) competitive sports.
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Examples of vigorous activity included heavy housework such as scrubbing floors or washing windows, heavy yard-work, digging in the garden, chopping wood, strenuous sports or exercise, running, fast jogging, competitive tennis, aerobics, bicycling on hills and fast dancing.
The household and care-giving section of the KPAS examines activities related to looking after children, preparing meals, cleaning, shopping, yard work, heavy outdoor work and major home decoration or repair activities.
Table 5 PROMIS v1.2 Physical Function item bank Item ID Questions 1 PFAre Are you able to stand for one hour?a 2 PFAre Are you able to do chores such as vacuuming or yard work? 3 PFAre Are you able to push open a heavy door? 4 PFAre Are you able to exercise for an hour? 5 PFArer1 Are you able to carry a heavy object (over 10 pounds/ 5 kg)?
And he still does yard work.
"I actually despise yard work," he says.
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