Compendium of physical activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities.

By Barbara E. Ainsworth, William L. Haskell, M. Whitt, M. L. Irwin, A. Swartz, S. Strath, W. L. O'brien, D. Bassett, Kathryn H. Schmitz, Patricia O. Emplaincourt and 2 more. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2000

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Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis (2012, methodology): “Moderate-or vigorous-intensity activities are those with an intensity level of at least three metabolic equivalents (METs) according to the Compendium of Physical Activities [24].”
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Risk Factors for Age-Related Disease (2009, positive): “AccordingtoguidelinesproposedbyAins-worthetal, 51 interviewers rated physical activity as light, moderate, hard, and very hard.”
American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention (2002, background): “Usual and intentional activities are also classified by intensity.(99) Light intensity activities include activities such as housework, shopping, or gardening.”
How much physical activity is enough to prevent unhealthy weight gain? Outcome of the IASO 1st Stock Conference and consensus statement (2003, background): “obesity reviews 4 , 101–114 types of PA, which has been updated recently (9,10).”
Physical activity and public health: updated recommendation for adults from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association. (2007, methodology): “A shorthand method for estimating energy expenditure during physical activity is the MET or metabolic equivalent ( 1 ).”
Position statement on physical activity and exercise intensity terminology. (2010, methodology): “ave been used from two main sources [15,30].”
Longitudinal study of muscle strength, quality, and adipose tissue infiltration. (2009, methodology): “Physical activity was defined by using the caloric expenditure (17) in the past week at baseline and after 5 y for self-reported walking, climbing stairs, and chores via a questionnaire.”
Community Prevalence of Ideal Cardiovascular Health, by the AHA Definition, and Relation to Cardiovascular Disease Incidence (2011, neutral): “The Baecke uestionnaire (12) asked participants to report the frequency f participation in as many as 4 sports and in walking in the revious year; this was converted to minutes per week of oderate or vigorous exercise (13).”
Guide to the assessment of physical activity: Clinical and research applications: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. (2013, background): “The “Compendium of Physical Activities: Classification of Energy Costs of Human Physical Activities”(74) was published in 1993, with updates in 2000 and 2011.(75,76) This publication provides a comprehensive list of physical activity MET values for use in scoring physical activity questionnaires.”
Development and validation of a Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire. (2004, methodology): “Activities listed in the 24-h recalls were assigned an activity code and intensity level from the Compendium of Physical Activities (5).”
Assessment of physical activity in youth. (2008, background): “The estimation of energy expenditure from self-reports in childhood generally uses adult-derived standard energy costs of specific activities (1).”