Cited by 4,102Physical Activity and HealthCardiovascular and exercise physiologyContext-Aware Activity Recognition Systems

Compendium of Physical Activities: Classification of energy costs of human physical activities

AINSWORTH, BARBARA E., HASKELL, WILLIAM L., LEON, ARTHUR S., JACOBS, DAVID R., MONTOYE, HENRY J., SALLIS, JAMES F., PAFFENBARGER, RALPH S.·1993·Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Abstract

A coding scheme is presented for classifying physical activity by rate of energy expenditure, i.e., by intensity. Energy cost was established by a review of published and unpublished data. This coding scheme employs five digits that classify activity by purpose (i.e., sports, occupation, self-care), the specific type of activity, and its intensity as the ratio of work metabolic rate to resting metabolic rate (METs). Energy expenditure in kilocalories or kilocalories per kilogram body weight can be estimated for all activities, specific activities, or activity types. General use of this coding system would enhance the comparability of results across studies using self reports of physical activity.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1249/00005768-199301000-00011

Cites

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The Compendium provides a consistent MET value, based whenever possible on published studies of energy cost, for scoring PA questionnaires, allowing for improved comparability across studies.

    “The Compendium provides a consistent MET value, based whenever possible on published studies of energy cost, for scoring PA questionnaires, allowing for improved comparability across studies.4”
  • The 2024 Adult Compendium is the third update of the Compendium of Physical Activities, first published in 1993 and previously updated in 2000 and 2011.

    “The 2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities is the third update of the Compendium of Physical Activities, first published in 1993 and previously updated in 2000 and 2011.”

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
AINSWORTH, B. E., HASKELL, W. L., LEON, A. S., JACOBS, D. R., MONTOYE, H. J., SALLIS, J. F., & PAFFENBARGER, R. S.
Affiliations
University of Minnesota (US)
Venue
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Published
1993-01
Volume
25
Issue
1
Pages
71-80
ISSN
0195-9131 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2045065444
Cited by
4,102
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 63 · 2025: 71 · 2024: 98 · 2023: 112 · 2022: 161 · 2021: 133 · 2020: 126 · 2019: 129 · 2018: 138 · 2017: 145 · 2016: 160 · 2015: 119 · 2014: 169 · 2013: 172 · 2012: 162
FWCI
15.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01hl037561-02)
  • U.S. Public Health Service (RFA-86-90-P)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL 36272, 5-RO1-HL-37561)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Keywords
physical activity classification, energy expenditure, metabolic equivalents, physical activity intensity, coding scheme, self-reported physical activity, resting metabolic rate, sport, occupational physical activity, self-care
MeSH terms
Energy Metabolism, Humans, Leisure Activities

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review