Online Assignment 3 - What Counts As Exercise?
Online Assignment 3 – What Counts As Exercise?
Objective: To determine what sorts of activities of daily life (gardening, car washing, house cleaning and similar) might “count” as exercise, despite not being considered “structured exercise”.
- Listen to this podcast Links to an external site. https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/676129459/get-started-exercising
- Visit this Compendium of Physical Activities Links to an external site.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xnst0owCpLSxw_06tufSRVKecvSSWMOT /view Look up 3 activities of daily life that interest you and note their MET values. Also, look up 3 structured exercises you would likely do and their MET values. Briefly explain your choices, including the MET values.
- Consider what you thought counted as exercise before doing this assignment and compare it to what you’ve learned here. Craft an explanation of the comparison into a ~150 word response, including how unstructured exercise might boost your success in satisfying the ACSM guidelines for good health on days when you cannot carve out time for structured exercise.
- After you post your response, read your peers’ posts. Find a response interests you in some way or that you can personally relate to on some level (which does not already have a reply). Using a starter statement Links to an external site.
,https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P_qXfMQe0UvCFh1Q5eE9nw4zY7 pIQvKHAynmvcpDUuI/edit comment meaningfully on the post. This response should contain ~100 words.