Physical Activity Survey

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house chores and child care left them with only a few hours of spare time to do what they wanted to do before it was time to end the night.
Next was how many minutes did you walk yesterday? All the college subjects walked on average about 75 minutes yesterday and this average were calculated based on walking to class. We explained that other than walking to and from class, driving and other modes of transportation were preferred and used instead. However one the college students went to the grocery store, which accounted for an additional 20 minutes while shopping. The one of the older adult subjects walked less than the college students because of their sedentary job. The time walked was about 50 minutes that day opposed to the second older adult who worked in Wal-Mart as a sale associate, and was required to walk on average 150 minutes. Leisure or walking for exercises was not accounted for because none of the participants had time for this type of physical activity.
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and because of this we tend to sit around lot on the computer or watching TV. On average, most of my participants have said that they don’t move enough because of their jobs and also because of their busy school schedule. I personal do not move enough because after a long day of three classes, all I want to do is get something to eat and go sit in my room and take a nap. Also homework keeps me occupied and basically I’ll be sedentary for hours at a time. This was also the same response as my other subjects.
All of my college age participants agreed that they should get about 60-90 minutes of intense (sweating) physical activity 2-3 times a week or more to increase our physical ...

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