Table 3.
Children’s ability to identify intensity of activities (n=12).
| Intensity and activity item | Representative verbal statement | Frequency count according to intensity level, n | |||||||
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Sedentary | Light | Moderate | Vigorous | |||||
| Sedentary | |||||||||
| Eating, sitting | “Eating’s easy cause you’re just like moving your arms and putting it [food] in your mouth” (PB06) | 5 | 7a | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Reading, lying down | “That one cause you're just lying there” (PB03) | 5a | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Mobile phone, sitting | “These [mobile phone use] are quite easy cause all you're doing is basically moving your fingers” (PB02) | 9a | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Computer, sitting | “Computer you just sitting down and probably typing something with mouse and this you're just going [acts out typing]...” (PB07) | 9a | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Video games, sitting | “They are like playing video games, this is inactive because you’re not actually like moving” (PB06) | 9a | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Light | |||||||||
| Fishing, sitting | “He’s just sitting down and waiting for a fish but when he winds it in he’s using kind of his muscles” (PG11) | 5a | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Stretching exercises | “Cause when I do rugby you have to warm up and that's not hard, easy or inactive” (PB07) | 0 | 2 | 9a | 1 | ||||
| Darts, wall | “Throwing darts is pretty easy but not to hit the middle [of the dart board]” (PB02) | 0 | 5a | 4 | 3 | ||||
| Walking, slow | “Walking to school’s easy, all you're doing is like moving your legs” (PB06) | 1 | 7a | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Moderate | |||||||||
| Throwing, snowball | “Throwing snowballs is quite easy because you can just throw them any way you like” (PB02) | 0 | 10a | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Climbing stairs | “I’ve put walking up steps because quite easy because all you've got to do is lift a foot and put it on each step” (PB09) | 0 | 9a | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Sweeping | “And sweeping because you can relax while you're doing it” (PB02) | 0 | 7a | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Mowing lawn | “For lawn, I've done...cause it’s not easy, and it’s not hard and it’s not inactive so it’s that one [moderate]” (PB07) | 1 | 4 | 6a | 0 | ||||
| Vigorous | |||||||||
| Climbing trees | “They’re using...their tummy muscles and their arms and their legs” (PG11) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7a | ||||
| Tennis | “Then tennis cause its quite active, you move a lot cos you hit and then you have to move to hit the ball again” (PB07) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8a | ||||
| Swimming laps | “When I go swimming my teacher, go in the 3rd lane and my swimming teacher pushes me really hard” (PB07) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7a | ||||
| Hockey, field | “Hockey's hard cause some people don't really know how to play hockey...” (PB06) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11a | ||||
| Football/soccer | “...playing football's pretty hard cause...you got to get past the people who are doing skills” (PB10) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7a | ||||
| Running, hard effort | “I think running because you run a long way, you get a little tired, then you get sweaty then you can't do any more” (PB01) | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6a | ||||
| Riding a bicycle, hard effort | “I did cycling because if you go really fast you might be really tired, and you might not want to do any more” (PB09) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11a | ||||
aRepresentative verbal statement frequency count.