Patterns of Physical Activity of Libyan Undergraduate Students at the University of Tripoli Using International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)

doi:10.26773/smj.190618

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Physical activity is defined as any physical movement performed by the skeletal muscles that requires the expenditure a quantity of energy that exceeds the energy spent in rest (Caspersen, Powell, & Christenson, 1985)
The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) publically available at www.ipaq.ki.se and it does not need a permission to use it. This questionnaire focusing on the time spent doing High Intensity physical activity and the time spent performing Moderate Intensity physical activity during the day, and IPAQ collecting the data about the spent for Walking more than 10 minutes during the day, and the number of days for doing each category of previous physical activity patterns
Higher prevalence of actives was found in moderate intensity Physical Activity (PA) which is reached 18.49 minutes per day (Figure 1) which is equivalent to 66.33% of physical activity during the average of 3.69 days per week (Figure 2), while the high intensity pa category was only 9.38 minutes per day which equivalent to 33.67% of physical activity during the average of 1.54 days per week, participants were reached 28.02 minutes as an average time of walking with the average of 4.05 days of the week

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Physical activity is defined as any physical movement performed by the skeletal muscles that requires the expenditure a quantity of energy that exceeds the energy spent in rest (Caspersen, Powell, & Christenson, 1985). The individual for the purpose of employment, recreation, treatment or prevention, “Physical activity is associated with many health benefits, both physical and psychological, in the prevention of ill health or in dealing with an unhealthy situation (Johnson, Tilgren, & Hagstromer, 2009). This relationship between physical activity and health appears to be somewhat correlated with the amount of physical activity that a person is doing. Physical activity is an essential element for the 18-65 age group (Haskell et al, 2013)

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