Physical activity
The weekly activity guidelines for adults, strength exercises, walking for health, and how where you live shapes how much you move.
- Moving to a New City and Staying Active: Choosing a Neighbourhood That Makes Movement Easy
How to choose where to live in a new city so that staying active is easy: walkable everyday destinations, parks within reach, a commute on foot or by bike, places to exercise, food shops nearby and a bedroom quiet enough to sleep, with a checklist for viewings and the first weeks.
- Muscle-Strengthening Activity for Beginners: What Counts and How Often
Why the WHO, the CDC and the NHS recommend muscle-strengthening activity on at least two days a week, what counts (from gardening to resistance bands), simple body-weight exercises from the NHS, how hard to work and how to stay safe.
- Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults: 150 Minutes a Week and Two Strength Days
The adult physical activity guidelines from the WHO, the CDC and the NHS explained: 150 to 300 minutes of moderate or 75 to 150 of vigorous activity, muscle strengthening on two days, sitting less, how to judge intensity and how to start from zero.
- Walking for Health: Brisk Pace, Short Bouts and Building a Habit
Why walking is one of the easiest ways to meet the activity guidelines, what counts as a brisk pace (about 3 miles an hour, the talk test), whether 10,000 steps is an official target, how to build walking into the day and how to stay motivated.
