Links > Resources: Benefits of Physical Activity

General Information About Benefits

• Alberta Centre for Active Living: The centre's mandate is to improve the health and quality of life of Albertans through physical activity. The centre’s website includes a wide range of information on all aspects of physical activity.

• Health Benefits of Physical Activity: The Evidence
  A seminal article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The primary purpose of this narrative review was to evaluate the current literature and to provide further insight into the role physical inactivity plays in the development of chronic disease and premature death.

Physical Activity Guidelines

• Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology: Information on all four of Canada’s physical activity guidelines; children, youth, adults and older adults. Other information about the benefits of physical activity, active living at work, active transportation, and government initiatives.

Ways to Motivate Physical Activity

• Four Good Reasons to Be More Active: An article that discusses four good reasons for being physically active.

• Launching into Physical Activity and Staying Active
  This article outlines three simple techniques to help you become active in the first place, and to stay active over the long term. Each of these basic techniques will help keep you moving!