What’s on the Activity Guidelines poster
A 5-row table: Type · Amount · Examples.
WHO and most national guidelines for adults aged 18–64.
- Moderate aerobic — 150–300 min/week — Brisk walk, cycling, swimming
- OR vigorous aerobic — 75–150 min/week — Running, fast cycling, sport
- Strength — 2+ days/week — All major muscle groups
- Balance (65+) — 3+ days/week — Tai chi, standing work
- Reduce sitting — Any reduction — Break up long sits
Moderate means you can talk but not sing. Vigorous means you can manage only a few words at a time.
Questions about the Activity Guidelines poster
- What’s on the Activity Guidelines poster?
- A 5-row table: Type · Amount · Examples. WHO and most national guidelines for adults aged 18–64. Moderate aerobic — 150–300 min/week — Brisk walk, cycling, swimming; OR vigorous aerobic — 75–150 min/week — Running, fast cycling, sport; Strength — 2+ days/week — All major muscle groups; Balance (65+) — 3+ days/week — Tai chi, standing work; Reduce sitting — Any reduction — Break up long sits. Moderate means you can talk but not sing. Vigorous means you can manage only a few words at a time.
- Who is the Activity Guidelines poster for?
- Activity Guidelines belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning movement can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Activity Guidelines poster?
- Two kinds of activity, both needed. Most people do some of the first and none of the second. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Activity Guidelines belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Activity Guidelines?
- Breathing Under Load, Common Injuries and The Core sit alongside Activity Guidelines in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Breathing Under LoadCommon InjuriesThe Core
- Is the Activity Guidelines poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Activity Guidelines downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Activity Guidelines poster print at?
- Activity Guidelines is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Activity Guidelines loses nothing.Printing guide
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