Table 1.

Recommendation for the children’s activity pyramid [53]

	Duration	Intensity	Heart ratea	Examples
Daily activities	6× at least 5–10 min	–	–	Go to school by foot or bicycle; housework, e.g. raking leaves, tidy the room, vacuum cleaning
Moderate activities	4 × 15 min = one hour	Not sweating or panting	Approx. 130 to <160 beats/minute	Physical education lessons, organised sports; Leisure activities like playing with friends or family members (swimming, inline skating, hide and seek)b
Intensive activities	2 × 15 min = 30 min	Sweating or panting	≥160 beats beats/minute
Inactivity/media consumption	4 × 15 min (less than 12 years)	–	–	Television, media use (PC, video games)c
	4 × 30 min (more than 12 years)

^aHeart rate—not obligatory

^bThe classification of these examples to moderate or intensive activities depends on the self-reported intensity (sweating or panting)

^cObligatory, creative or relaxing activities like school time, drawing, reading and creative hobbies are excluded